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Originally Posted by Bene505
... I'll put a bowline around the boom... At the goose neck end of the boom (the mast end), the line is held in place by cam style dogs.
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If you read the original post that I reference above, you will see that the bitter end of the reefing is not tied to the boom, but to itself...the cam style dogs are reduntant, of use only if you can't employ line stoppers near the winch. You do not want to have to set/unset the cams, you should have and use line stoppers at the winch.
To reef with a typical setup,
1. Set the reefing line on its winch and trim out any slack
2 fully luff the main, lower the main to a premarked position on the halyard
3. hook the reef tack onto on the reef hook.
4. fully tension the halyard
5. trim the reefing line via the winch until the reef clew reaches the boom.
Trim the mainsheet.
You can leave the reefing line on the winch, until you need to do a deeper reef, to do so, set the stopper on the working reefing line and remove that line from the winch, put the next reefing line on the winch and repeat the above process.