Barber haulers, rigging question

[Faster]

I'd be pretty leery of using twingers in place of a proper downhaul/foreguy on the pole. I can see that it would work, but as mentioned above it's another line that would need to be tended religiously otherwise you've got trouble. A downhaul is to a degree self-tending. (esp if, as on our boats, its NEVER left uncleated.)

We've used twingers on various boats, on the sheet and the guy. On the guy it provides the downward pull mentioned above, stabilizing the pole but also on reaching legs gets the guy down on the deck up to the twinger so that you're not pushing on the lifelines/stanchions with the loaded guy (except at the base).

As the wind pipes up the we also started pulling the twinger on the sheet.. it effectively changes your sheeting angle and again stabilizes the sail and limits its tendency to oscillate and misbehave. In the heaviest conditions downwind we sometimes had the twing on hard both sheet and guy, making it much easier to keep the sail up and not have it dance around - easing loads on the helm as well.

Keep in mind that the twingers are another "chore" that must be tended to properly, and that your crew needs to get them into the routine to make effective use of them.

[mikehoyt]

On our J27 the toerail is a track. The Twingers are on a car which can be moved fore and aft and allows it to oduble as barber hauler. Go to New and Used Boats For Sale and look up tuning information on J27 and you can see when barber hauler is normally used.

Mike
J27 #150
Nut Case

[bbreith]

Tommays-
I assume that is a picture of your J24...beauty. By the way how much of a job was it to install those PVC toe rails? Love the look of those. Where did you get the parts from?

Sorry don't mean to divert the topic of this thread.

[tommays]

No my boat has 27 year old teak

Waterline systems sells a PVC kit BUT it really requires mucho work getting the old stuff up as you will have to cut a screw every 6" for about 50 FEET