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[QUOTE=acunningham;684277]This sentence surprises me. I once had an instructor tell me never to tie reefing lines around the boom on a loose-footed mainsail, as it could cause excessive load on the sail cloth and tear it. He told me to simply tie them under the foot of the sail. Was he wrong?[/QUOTE]
I think he's referring to the clew reefing line(s), not the 'reef ties' that you're thinking of. Tightly tying in the reef ties around the boom can indeed cause damage to the sail, whether loose footed or otherwise.
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".. there is much you could do at sea with common sense.. and very little you could do without it.."
Capt G E Ericson (from "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat)
1984 Fast/Nicholson 345
Last edited by Faster; 01-08-2011 at 11:09 AM.
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