jib tangles with anchor

[Ginny]

I want to raise the jib from where it attaches at the bow so it won't interfere with where anchor is stored. How do I do this? What do I use to take up that space.



pecks@cheerful.com

[sloopjohnl]

will a short, wire pennant work? is there enough room on the headstay above the sail's headboard to accommodate the necessary length of the pennant? if not you would have to take some sail area away from the foot of the sail.

I want to raise the jib from where it attaches at the bow so it won't interfere with where anchor is stored. How do I do this? What do I use to take up that space.

[John R.]

I want to raise the jib from where it attaches at the bow so it won't interfere with where anchor is stored. How do I do this? What do I use to take up that space.

You need a pennant. A length of rigging wire (whatever length you want) suitable for the loads of your jib with a thimbled eye at each end. Shackle one end to the tack fitting on deck and the other end to the jib tack. Use self locking shackles or wire them.

You can make it yourself or have a rigger do it. If you have a West Marine store nearby you can use their rigging bench and tools to do the job.

I recommend you wrap some amalgamating rigging tape around the nicro press fittings when you are finished making them. The fittings can cause chafe and can be rough on the skin if you come into contact them while working up forward.

[Neil Gordon]

>>A length of rigging wire (whatever length you want) suitable for the loads of your jib with a thimbled eye at each end.<<

It hardly needs to be wire. The load on the pennant will be the same as the load on the halyard. Line of equal strength to the halyard will suffice.


Regards, Neil
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Cape Dory 28 #167




neil@nrgordon.com

[John R]

>>A length of rigging wire (whatever length you want) suitable for the loads of your jib with a thimbled eye at each end.<<

It hardly needs to be wire. The load on the pennant will be the same as the load on the halyard. Line of equal strength to the halyard will suffice.


Regards, Neil
s/v LIQUIDITY
Cape Dory 28 #167

Low stretch line is certainly an option but I believe most pennants will be found to be wire to reduce any additional chance of stretch and for ultimate strength. Also the wire pennant is one less place to have to worry about potential chafe and deterioration of strength. Wire is usually (not always!)the case on larger craft and not knowing what size Ginny's vessel is it seemed to me more prudent to recommend wire.

[Neil Gordon]

>>Low stretch line is certainly an option but ...<<

I'm just a fan of no cost or low cost solutions. I have a CDI furler, which has a downhaul to hold the genoa, which is essentially the same thing. No problems and no chafe after four years.

>>I believe most pennants will be found to be wire to reduce any additional chance of stretch and for ultimate strength.<<

Tradition. Halyards were wire, too. But there's less stretch and more strength available in rope now than before. I'd be inclined to save the trip to the rigger.


Regards, Neil
s/v LIQUIDITY
Cape Dory 28 #167



neil@nrgordon.com

[Al Levesque]

I want to raise the jib from where it attaches at the bow so it won't interfere with where anchor is stored.

I have used a short length of wire with eyes on each end to raise the foot of my jib. Recently, when I wanted to do the same on our latest boat, I didn't have such a length and wasn't sure how long I wanted it so I used a short length of chain. That allowed me to try different lengths by inserting the shackle in different links. That worked so well that I cut the chain to the length I wanted and have been using that.

PS: Don't hacksaw the chain on board nor upwind of the boat.

Al



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