typhoon running rigging

[john hoft-march]

I'm a novice Typhoon owner and strictly amateur sailor. I've got the basics of the rigging down but there are some extra bits that I'm not sure about. For instance:

On the front of the cabin top, just aft of the mast, there is a pad eye on either side, outboard of the companionway slide, mounted sideways (i.e., the hole goes through from side-to-side)
Just aft of those pad eyes is another set on tracks
Just aft of those to port is a cam cleat, followed by a winch, followed by a regular cleat. To starboard there is just a regular cleat.

I think I understand that the pad eyes on the tracks are for the small jib and that the winch to port is for the spinnaker (using which will be another request!). The cleat to starboard is labeled "Main Halyard", which is pretty clear but I'm not sure how the halyard should get to the cleat - does it run through the sideways pad eye or diagonally across the companionway slide? I assume that the jib halyard should be the same but does it run into the cam cleat or the regular one? Another problem is that the jib halyard wire seems way too long - the end of it is well out of the mast when the big jib is up. If the halyards are meant to run through the sideways pad eyes, the jib halyard wire will be making a 90 degree bend on the outside of the port pad eye - is that a problem?

Thanks for your help.
John



john.hoft-march@appleton.org

[Serge Zimberoff]

See insertions...sorry, messy but easier...

On the front of the cabin top, just aft of the mast, there is a pad eye on either side, outboard of the companionway slide, mounted sideways (i.e., the hole goes through from side-to-side)

>>>Not typical, someone else may know why these were added<<<

Just aft of those pad eyes is another set on tracks

>>>These are for your jib sheets. They are lead inside the standing rigging.<<<

Just aft of those to port is a cam cleat,

>>>Probably for the jib sheet. If so there would normally be a matching one to starboard. Jib sheets originally made a turn around the winch and then were cleated off just aft of the winches on the cleat on the lee board.<<<<
followed by a winch,
>>>Assume winch is outboard of lee boards. Genoa sheet leads outside the standing rigging, through turning block that should be on the toe rail alongside the cockpit, then a turn around the winch and aft to cleat.<<<
followed by a regular cleat.
>>>Cleat is on lee boards, yes? Originally for jib and genoa sheets to cleat to<<<
To starboard there is just a regular cleat.
>>>Yes, but there should also be a winch?<<<

I think I understand that the pad eyes on the tracks are for the small jib and that the winch to port is for the spinnaker (using which will be another request!).

>>>Yes, deal with spinaker separately.<<<
The cleat to starboard is labeled "Main Halyard", which is pretty clear but I'm not sure how the halyard should get to the cleat - does it run through the sideways pad eye or diagonally across the companionway slide?
>>>There are a pair of cleats standing up on teak blocks on the cabin top...one port and one starboard. These are halyard cleats. Port for the jib and starboard for the main.<<<
I assume that the jib halyard should be the same but does it run into the cam cleat or the regular one? Another problem is that the jib halyard wire seems way too long - the end of it is well out of the mast when the big jib is up.
>>>If it comes past the cleat I just noted, it is indeed too long.<<<
If the halyards are meant to run through the sideways pad eyes, the jib halyard wire will be making a 90 degree bend on the outside of the port pad eye - is that a problem?
>>>YES...DON'T DO THAT! They exit the mast and make an angle (40 degrees or so to the cleats on the cabin top.<<<

Thanks for your help.
John

>>>Summary...most of the fittings you named should be in pairs. Odd single pieces may be just convenience items the prior owner added and may be hard to fathom. (With exception of some spinaker fittings for topping lift and downhaul. But that is another time. )<<<
Serge
Typhoon #1700 'Cloning Around'



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[Bob B]

Serge seems to have covered most of it. One of the cleats or such may be for topping lifts or boom vangs and such.

Bob



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