Featherwind Boat Building Page. |
Reworked the sprits first. |
It's not a place. It's a state of mind. |
Tranquility Island. |
Tranquility Island. |
Featherwind Boat Building Page |
Brailing the Mainsail. Page #1 |
I set up the sprits with a lashings, using a single loop of rope wrapped round the
mast twice then through itself. Notch goes into the protruding end of the
loop. This automatically tightens the rope against the mast when
the sprit halyard is tightened. Easy to adjust up and down when loose
and quaranteed not to slip when under tension. (the man's a genius) |
Pulleys are attached to the notch at the other end of the sprits and the halyards
runs though them and are attached to tie-points in the sail with a bowline.
The other end of the sprit halyards are run down the sprits and through the
notch on the mast end where they are attached to the sprits with 1/2 hitches.
I may add cleats later but I want to keep it simple. The pulley lashed to the boom-sprit on the left side of the picture is for the brailing line |
Here you can see the brailing line if you look closely. It is tied to a cabinet
handle (yes a cabinet handle!) screwed into the top of the mast facing
forward. |
The brailing line is attached to the cabinet handle with a bowline and run down the
right side of the sail, through the pulley shown in the second picture and back
up the left side of the sail to a pulley that is also attached with a loop
of rope to the (guess what) cabinet handle. From there it runs down the mast
and is attached to a hole in the first frame, right side with a bowline.
That's so I don't lose it. |
Go to page #2, below. |
