A friend who isn't on line has a CD 30 cutter and is replacing all his sheets. The manual said he needs a 7/16 by 60 foot main sheet, which he bought and installed. He now finds that he has 30 feet of excess mainsheet coiled up in the cockpit at all times. Can 60 feet be right? Twice the length of the boat? What do you 30 owners actually use?
TomCambria@mindspring.com
CD 30 mainsheet length
Moderator: Jim Walsh
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D. Stump, Hanalei
Re: CD 30 mainsheet length
Tom,
Agreed, it does seem to be too long. I would think that if you put the boom full out, with the traveler full to the opposite side, ran the sheet through all blocks and cam cleat properly, you wouldn't need more than about 10 feet of it left in the cockpit. Even the stays'l sheet seems too long! I wonder why? That pile of line in the cockpit gets to be a pain sometimes. It really bothers me when Carol decides to "make it neat" (read that: "it will foul when ya try to pay out the line", so yes, I would also like to know why so much extra line is specified.
Dave Stump
Captain Commanding
s/v Hanalei CD-30
Agreed, it does seem to be too long. I would think that if you put the boom full out, with the traveler full to the opposite side, ran the sheet through all blocks and cam cleat properly, you wouldn't need more than about 10 feet of it left in the cockpit. Even the stays'l sheet seems too long! I wonder why? That pile of line in the cockpit gets to be a pain sometimes. It really bothers me when Carol decides to "make it neat" (read that: "it will foul when ya try to pay out the line", so yes, I would also like to know why so much extra line is specified.
Dave Stump
Captain Commanding
s/v Hanalei CD-30
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Gary McDonough
Re: CD 30 mainsheet length
Tom,
When I bought my 30 it also had about 30 feet of extra line. I always wondered why. As Dave says, it would just create clutter. To fix the problem, I let the boom out as far as it would go and then cut off the excess line.
Gary
garym@taxinvest.com
When I bought my 30 it also had about 30 feet of extra line. I always wondered why. As Dave says, it would just create clutter. To fix the problem, I let the boom out as far as it would go and then cut off the excess line.
Gary
garym@taxinvest.com
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John R.
Reversible
My cutter is the same length and I believe it is engineered to that length so that there is plenty to work with in case the sheet becomes worn in places and it needs to be shortened or reversed such as what is common to do with halyards. That is why halyards are much longer than they need to be.Tom wrote: A friend who isn't on line has a CD 30 cutter and is replacing all his sheets. The manual said he needs a 7/16 by 60 foot main sheet, which he bought and installed. He now finds that he has 30 feet of excess mainsheet coiled up in the cockpit at all times. Can 60 feet be right? Twice the length of the boat? What do you 30 owners actually use?