Useful preventer tip?

[peteandthira]

Re the earlier thread on preventers: I saw a top tip on my coastal skipper boat recently. The chap had a short line from the end of his boom to the north end of his rodkicker, hooked onto the latter by a rubber bungee with hooks to keep it tight under the boom. To rig his preventer, he simply strolled up the deck with the business end of his preventer line, took it round a forward cleat, then walked it back outside everything to his rodkicker. Boom is well out at the moment, already on a run. He simply unhooked the end of his permanently rigged short line, clipped his preventer line to it, let it go, then hopped back to his cockpit to tie the remaining end tightly to a rear cleat.

Neat, done it ever since. You can gybe it just as easily without having to reach out to the end of the boom to undo it. You can even do that bit after your gybe, providing it was released at the cockpit end first. You just need to revisit the rodkicker and re-thread the line.

I guess you all do this anyway, and that I was the last one to discover it!

Pops

 

[Stig]

Yep - On passage we rig a "lazy" preventer on the weather side to make the gybe even easier - no need to leave the cockpit

 

[Slow_boat]

I saw a chap this summer on a Hurely 22. He was single handed and had preventers permenantly rigged running from a block on the quarter, a block on the foredeck and both ends, the one from forard with a snap shackle/hook, back to the cockpit.
He picked up his mooring by coming to a halt with the bouy alongside the cockpit, leaned over and fed the hook end through the bouys ring and back onto on board then let the boat slip back on the temporary line as he walked forard to rig a proper one. Totaly calm and under control.
Apparantly a permanent preventer has many uses!

 

[Norman_E]

Thank you, I will try it.

 

[billcowan]

Tie rope to where the mainsheet attaches to boom using long loop with bowline.

block with snapshackle already threaded on.

rush up leward deck and snap on block - I dont have a perforated toerale but I have stancheon bases with handy loops.

return to cockpit and tighten up free end onto side cleat.

Next best thing to perminent rigged preventer.

Actuall main problem is that wind always seems to be blowing from the wrong end of the boat for this to work!

 

[peteandthira]

Not if you turn the boat round and go the other way!