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Has anyone tried moving the primary winches to the cabin top?
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my secondary winches are on the cabin top and are generally only used to adjust halyard tension and trim spinnaker sheet when wind stronger than can be handled by ratchet blocks
I'll post a photo of the layout, I'd guess that you could use the secondaries to adjust the jib when on the inner tracks
Sheeting the genoa from the outer jib track back to the cabin top would be at the wrong angle, put too much load on the genoa track, and put the trimmer in a location where he/she could not see the leach of the genoa. In stronger winds, we occasionally cross-sheet to windward side so the trimmer does not have to move weight inboard. -
Yeah, What Dave said! Why would you want to move the primaries up there?
The boat layout is fine the way it is. -
Better for cross-sheeting, can get rid of the secondary winches. My concern is what to do with the running backstays.
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I placed a quick disconnect (halyard shackle)on the upper block of the back-stay adjustment and a small shackle on each stay so that I can remove the stays bringing them forward to a tie down point at the base of the shrouds. In this way if for some reason (large waves and lots of wind ?) that I want to use the running backstays they can be hooked up in a matter of seconds. Our lake conditions rarely present large waves (which might cause the mast to move fore and aft) so in the past 5-years I've not ever hooked up the back-stays. I do not feel that I've lost any pointing ability, but as almost all our races are short, probably not enough time on a tack to notice. Running backs were a major pain when short staffed which is the norm. I got the idea from an article in the HotFoot newsletter where the Victoria fleet of HotFoots were used to train a team heading off somewhere to a major J-24 regatta and they wanted to make the boat configurations more similar.
