How do you cleat your jib sheets?
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 4:50 pm
Hi there. I'm getting my C-22 ready to go back in the water. I think I will replace the jib sheet, but I have a couple of questions about how they run and where they fasten.
The boat came with one sheet, about 38' long, that I fasten to the jib with a soft shackle system (This is an improvement on the previous owners system). This has worked all right, leading each side of the sheet back to the block on the toe rail and then to the winch. Obviously, at 19 feet per side there isn't enough length to go through the cheek block on the combing. But how useful or necessary is it to lead the sheet through the cheek block?
Do I really have to buy 80 feet of rope to meet spec (40' per side)?
By going through this extra block the sheet cuts slightly across the forward end of the cockpit and interferes and makes a comfortable sitting spot less than ideal, even though it is on the leeward side. How have you dealt with this?
My other question is where do you cleat the jib sheet after passing around the winch? There is a clam cleat on each side of the companionway near the winch, which I guess could work. But this seems like poor design and fairly awkward.
Last season, we ran this sheet through this cam cleat after of the winch. Photo:
I don't think this is standard equipment for the C-22 (maybe it was a spinnaker?), but this still is not that easy or ideal. Under tension it's difficult to settle the rope into the cleat as it is flush with the combing.
So, what do you do? And how well does it work?
Thanks.
The boat came with one sheet, about 38' long, that I fasten to the jib with a soft shackle system (This is an improvement on the previous owners system). This has worked all right, leading each side of the sheet back to the block on the toe rail and then to the winch. Obviously, at 19 feet per side there isn't enough length to go through the cheek block on the combing. But how useful or necessary is it to lead the sheet through the cheek block?
Do I really have to buy 80 feet of rope to meet spec (40' per side)?
By going through this extra block the sheet cuts slightly across the forward end of the cockpit and interferes and makes a comfortable sitting spot less than ideal, even though it is on the leeward side. How have you dealt with this?
My other question is where do you cleat the jib sheet after passing around the winch? There is a clam cleat on each side of the companionway near the winch, which I guess could work. But this seems like poor design and fairly awkward.
Last season, we ran this sheet through this cam cleat after of the winch. Photo:
I don't think this is standard equipment for the C-22 (maybe it was a spinnaker?), but this still is not that easy or ideal. Under tension it's difficult to settle the rope into the cleat as it is flush with the combing.
So, what do you do? And how well does it work?
Thanks.