Hi Dan, I was priveleged to own a Flicka designed by Bingham some years ago. It was a sweet handling boat with a nice turn of speed for its size. In bad weather is hove to like a duck takes to water. The inside headroom made this boat about all a lone sailor could wish for. The Monty 17, at one quarter the weight feels much like this Bingham creation in a seaway. Fair winds, Tom B <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 7:52 AM, Dan Farrell <msog@danf.us> wrote:
Great article, thanks for sharing! Written by Bruce Bingham!
Dan Farrell M17 #301
John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net> wrote:
Speaking of reefing lines - here is a nice article on reefing setups: https://www.cruisingworld.com/seamanship-101-reefing-main
Pics & diagrams are all after the written text.
He gives good reasons why internal clew reefing lines result in poor sail set/shape. Unless you are somehow running them into the boom at an appropriate point, rather than at end of boom. A clew strap around the boom might help also.
I was planning to re-do my reefing setup, and had some of this figured out, but he points out a number of things I was still not clear on.
My exception to his setup would be, my topping lift is port side of boom, not starboard, but I already do it by feel a lot of the time, just reaching under the boom while staying on starboard side. On a small boom surface like ours, having multiple reef lines and the topping lift on the same side would probably not even fit, or would be too crowded if it was possible to squeeze them in.
Also on a boat our size, I don't see the need for a 2:1 on the clew reefing lines. Direct from clew reef point through cheek block to cleat seems fine. Curious anyone else's experience on that.
cheers, John S.
On 05/08/2018 06:22 PM, Henry Rodriguez wrote:
Mine is the same (#310.) I took advantage of the open boom end to exit my internal reefing lines. They are protected from chafe by a bullseye fairlead mounted just inside the opening.
Henry Monita
On Tue, May 8, 2018, 8:04 PM John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net> wrote:
Here's mine, from M-17 #38, 1974.
Looks like what someone described, and was wondering about. As far as I know this is the original setup (except the reefing hooks which I imagine were added at some later time). Has always seemed quite solid to me...haven't broken it yet anyhow! ;-)
cheers, John S.
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