Back to square one...

[kydocfrog]

Ah well.

My attempt to simplify running rigging hit a snag. I tried for a single lift halyard with the boom crossed on the mast with parrells similar to a standing lug. The boom lifts cleanly and simply, and there is one less line, but, as someone suggested might happen, the boom jams in the shrouds.

Back to square one and figuring out how to make a good set of jaws with my limited tooling, and, I fear, too square section mast. Going to be tight getting to Rend Lake now.

DocA.

[Dave R1]

Doc,

Any chance you've got enough extra shroud length to allow for a short spreader slighly above where the jaws ride? I imagine if you could put a piece of something, oak, angle iron, that would extend about 3" on either side of the mastand which the shrouds could pass over (or be attached to) you'd eliminate the problem with the jaws hanging up in the shrouds.

[kydocfrog]

I may do that eventually, but that's probably not going to handle what is actually going on. I don't have jaws... I tried crossing the boom on the mast like a standing lug rig. That turns out to present a much larger issue with jamming up in the shrouds. as the foot of the boom lifts much higher than I expected.

Found two pieces of oak. Butchered one, decided it was time to go inside and work on a paper I'm supposed to present next week.

DocA

[Bill Paxton]

Here's the solution I came up with to keep the jaws from snagging on the shrouds. The jaws are made out of plywood, and made extra long. I've used this for 4+ years on my Weekender without ever once fouling the jaws in the shrouds. It's easy and quick to make.

[kydocfrog]

Ah! I knew I had seen a picture that looked like that. I've started cutting one of similar proportions and with the same bolted from top rather than from sides approach.

Thanks!

DocA