Haul downs for a CD22

[Ginny]

Has anyone installed haul downs for a CD22? Seems that it would be a help if we singlehand her.



pecks@cheerful.com

[john]

Has anyone installed haul downs for a CD22? Seems that it would be a help if we singlehand her.

What's a haul down?



redzeplin@yahoo.com

[john]

Has anyone installed haul downs for a CD22? Seems that it would be a help if we singlehand her.

What's a haul down?



redzeplin@yahoo.com

[Tom]

Has anyone installed haul downs for a CD22? Seems that it would be a help if we singlehand her.

What's a haul down?

A haul down is a small line that you attach to the halyard shackle when you hoist a sail. It runs down to a turning block on deck and then leads back to the cockpit. The idea is that when you release the halyard and want to lower the sail, you can pull on this line from the cockpit without going forward and "haul the sail down" (hence the name "haul down")on deck. You may know that the wire in the sail luff keeps it from just falling down on deck and you have to go forward and pull it down by hand to get it on deck unless you have a haul down.

A related question that you didn't ask. Why do they call the line that raises a sail a "halyard?" This term comes from the the old days of square rigged ships that had square sails attached to a yardarm or "yard". When you wanted to raise a square sail you "hauled the yard up". Haul the yard up got shortened over the years to "ha(u)lyard" or "halyard." So the line that hauls a sail up is the "halyard" and the line that hauls a sail down is a "haul down".

A good book for basic sailing terminology is Royce's "Sailing Illustrated"



TomCambria@mindspring.com

[Tom]

Has anyone installed haul downs for a CD22? Seems that it would be a help if we singlehand her.

What's a haul down?

A haul down is a small line that you attach to the halyard shackle when you hoist a sail. It runs down to a turning block on deck and then leads back to the cockpit. The idea is that when you release the halyard and want to lower the sail, you can pull on this line from the cockpit without going forward and "haul the sail down" (hence the name "haul down")on deck. You may know that the wire in the sail luff keeps it from just falling down on deck and you have to go forward and pull it down by hand to get it on deck unless you have a haul down.

A related question that you didn't ask. Why do they call the line that raises a sail a "halyard?" This term comes from the the old days of square rigged ships that had square sails attached to a yardarm or "yard". When you wanted to raise a square sail you "hauled the yard up". Haul the yard up got shortened over the years to "ha(u)lyard" or "halyard." So the line that hauls a sail up is the "halyard" and the line that hauls a sail down is a "haul down".

A good book for basic sailing terminology is Royce's "Sailing Illustrated"

Or were you making the point that "haul downs" are usually called "down hauls"?



TomCambria@mindspring.com