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Thanks Oliver – once again that makes alot of sense – I’ll aim to have the split as close to, but just below, the block as possible when the kicker is on max and the boom centred.
Thanks Chris – thats really clear – looking forward to getting back to the boat and trying this out!
Chris thats really interesting – possible I have one of these – as when I didn’t put the pin through the tack cringle – everything did look better!- however, – the bolt rope on the sail’s foot/bottom edge runs all the way to the luff – so it got quite jammed in the track of the boom (at the point where the ‘jaws’ of the track narrow to encase the rope – hope that makes sense) – so I didn’t think that could be the way – is this normal on the ‘modern’ type?
Many thanks
Dave
Just to say thanks all – wasn’t expecting so many responses from a dull question about old sails! – really helpful.
Good to know about the clew and the boom black band – all the trimming advice I’ve seen says outhaul to the band, but there’s a lot of pictures on the web of what look like nicely trimmed sails where this is clearly not the case – so I shall outhaul to an obvious point of tension from now on
In terms of the luff – yes – I’m hauling the sail up and trying to engage the boom to the gooseneck without any kicker/Cunningham or outhaul – so I suspect that it is a case of an old shrunken bolt rope – I shall have a measure just to be sure though.
Then I’ll take a view as to a new sail of fix the old – the sails are quite old, so might be worth while just going for a nice new one.
Thanks again
Dave
Thanks Oliver
I’m pretty sure I got my black band measurements right – so I think next step is to measure the sail – on thing I have found is a few pictures (on this site and in other places) where people are sailing their GP14 with the tack cringle clearly not in the pin but tied to the mast a little way up – it looks very much like my tack did when I got both head and clew to their bands with the tack ‘unpinned’ – here’s an example:
This seems odd to me but its clearly ‘a thing’ as I’ve seen a few pictures of it – any ideas as to the motivations behind this approach?
Dave
Oliver
Thanks also for your useful reply to my thread about cruising sails – just been researching reefing systems so came across this thread. Really interested in the idea of transom main for cruising, and sorry if this is a really basic question, but would you be able to give a brief description of how that might be achieved? My GP is currently centre main, with a split sheet ending at each stern corner of the transom. I’d obviously need to put a bottom block somewhere on the transom – so would this have to be on a rope ‘horse’ to take it over the tiller? – I understand that early GP’s had some form of metal horse for this purpose. Any guidance you can give would be great.
Thanks for the reply Oliver
That all makes sense – I think my fear of it (the halyard) getting caught on something (most likely the jib sheets) just comes from experience that if a rope on a boat can in theory get caught or tangled, then it eventually always will in practice – normally at the most inconvenient/dangerous time! However, if you’ve experience of leaving it loose with no issues then I’ll give that a go and see how I get on.
Many thanks
