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Originally Posted by saltypat
I am beginning to see the some light. A padeye would be a fitting mounted on the side of the mast I think, and I and pretty sure I do not have such a piece of hardware.. (we could add it). This why I was thinking of going temporarily under the mast)
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I would go around the boom, but through a padeye on the bottom of the boom, to keep the rope located in the proper spot.
BTW, the horizontal aluminum piece is a BOOM not a MAST, which is the big vertical stick it is attached to. Please use the correct terms, or things get really confusing and you really do sound like an idiot... which probably isn't what you want. For instance, how do you go under a mast??? the base of the mast is solidly connected to the boat... and in many cases goes down inside the boat to connect to the keel.
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Also, we do have 3 sheaves, and the one to starboard is in use for the old reefing line. The port sheave is empty.
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As I said above, the port and starboard ones would traditionally be used for the first and second reefs, and the center one for the outhaul on a three-sheave setup.
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So, the middle sheave which has a line coming out of it at the mast, the one I do not see an exit line for on the aft end of the boom, might be the outhaul.
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Is there a
line attached to the clew of the mainsail? If not, there really needs to be one. A photo of the setup would help, since it may be something weird.
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Pulling on that outhaul should tighten the tension of the foot of the sail? If that is so, I am not sure when I put tension on it what it is affecting somewhere to add the tension. I think the tack on the boom is fixed (maybe not), so is it llikely moving something else at the end of the boom??
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The outhaul is used to pull the clew of the mainsail out along the boom, tightening the foot of the mainsail.
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(I googled "mainsail outhaul" to see if I could get a quick explanation, but no luck).
Hope I am not too far off course!
Thanks again, Saltypat
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Try googling
"define:0uthaul", which will get you the definition of the word.
LINK
P.S. I cheated and had to type that define term with a "0" instead of an "o" since it was trying to turn the ":" and the "o" into smiley face...
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