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Topic: Rigging a Code40
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Sailorman unregistered
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posted July 18, 2002 03:24 PM
Hi,I haven't used my Code40 for a couple of years and I'm a little foggy about some of the riggings. First of all, on the top of the stern (like the top part of the transom) are two black plastic brackets, one starboard and one port, and I dont know what they are for. It appears that a rope ran through them at one time, but I dont know which rope. It doesnt make sense for the main sheets to go through them, but I can think of anything else that is back there. Also there is a center traveller in the boat that consists of two pulleys, a big one connected to a small one, for the main sheets. However I have another set of pulleys exactly like the traveller that isnt attached to anything. Is it just a spare, or is it used somewhere else? Thanks for any help you can provide. -SM
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kbrumund unregistered
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posted July 19, 2002 12:09 AM
Well, I haven't done it since last year, but here is what I remember from my Code 40.The spinnaker sheet runs from the spinnaker to the port transom block, then forward to a block inside the cockpit near the mainsheet on the port side, across the cockpit to another block on the starboard side, then back to the starboard transom block, then forward and around the forestay and onto the spinnaker. It is a continuous sheet. My mainsheet uses multiple blocks to get additional leverage. Mainsheet is tied to the top of the traveller block, runs up to the first (foremost) block on the boom, down to the traveller block, up to the second (rearmost) block on the boom and then down to a mainsheet block that is mounted aft of the centerboard. YMMV, as this may have been a modification by the previous owner(s). ...karl, who's too heavy for a Code 40, but tries to get it planing anyway
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Sailorman unregistered
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posted July 19, 2002 12:14 PM
Ok thanks, I dont have a spinnaker, so I guess thats what threw me off.-SM
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