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Originally Posted by sailboy21
Fine... I'll draw a picture. Words haven't been coming out of my head right lately... getting old sucks. BTW this is not how my boat is currently setup, but a setup I have observed on other peoples boats that seems to work.
I changed the color of the reefing line from green to yellow as it passes through the reef point. |
The bitter end of the reefing line should be secured around the boom itself, as in the referenced post. If you secure the bitter end of the reefing line as shown, the reef will not be pulled both aft and down to the boom, it will be pulled only aft, resulting in a fuller sail than designed, not what you want when you are reefing.