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The cover is off the Mark V and our second season approaches. Now is the time to remember what bothered us during our first year as the euphoria has worn off somewhat. the boat (a 1985) came to me with a schaefer traveler system set up similar to Towser in black arts in that the final turn of line is through a block hung on an eye strap near the bottom of the coaming. The line is cleated in a cam at the top of the coaming. In a word, when completing a tack, it has not been easy to bring the traveler to windward. So we actually let it go to leeward and cleat before tacking. This is not always easy to time when tacking up the windward leg and trying to stay up.
Should moving the boom location by traveler be so difficult? I have inspected the car-and the wheels are still round. Is it that schaefer stuff is not harken-just alot more friction?
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This won't help but my mainsail trimmer hates the traveler arrangement on my mkv aswell. Same thing before tacking is to go to the low side and cleat.
Jim
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If you have to fight a traveller just to haul it to weather, you won't play it in the gusts. If you don't play it in the gusts, you won't stay on your feet and if you don't stay on your feet, you won't go.
Your Schaeffer traveller may look alright, but clearly it's beyond its best-by date. You won't regret replacing it with Harken.
David Weatherston
Towser, Toronto
C&C 27 Mk IV
David Weatherston
Towser, Toronto
C&C 27 Mk IV
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better yet - get a Harken self-tacking traveller - you will never have to pull it up after a tack.
and replace those blocks on an eye with a fixed turning block - because if you are racing you still need to be able to play it in the puffs - it is vital you do so.
jim
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