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existentialsailor
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Initially Posted - 02/04/2006 :  07:33:17  Show Profile
Josh, This is the harken set up my Capri:









The cleats are too high up on the coaming and don't work well, this will be changed this year.

I also changed to this type of set up on the mainsheet since the pictures were taken, made a BIGdifference adding the trigger lock.



Mainsheet to boom set up:



I don't have the model numbers, but everything is stock Harken except the teak, I believe that was custom made. Like the others said, you need to raise up whatever sytem you decide on.
Rick
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Response Posted - 02/04/2006 :  10:23:13  Show Profile
Here's a different option. Rat Baby uses a Harkin windward sheeting car and Lewmar fiddle blocks. I really like the windward sheeting car. And note that we don't use the fixed cam cleat for the sheet. I changed from that system because it takes too much room and slightly hinders fine tuning the mainsail by always wanting to center the boom. The disadvantage to my setup is that in a stiff breeze you need to use your foot to keep the car in place while sheeting in.


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Response Posted - 02/04/2006 :  19:28:13  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
We had a similar set up to both of these on the Eveyln 32 I race now. There is a bit more purchase at 6:1 with a 32:1 fine tuner, but the equipment is the same style. Initially we had the set up like Rick, but found that when we would bring the traveler up, and try to hammer down on the sheet, we were losing out because the last purchase point - the cleat - was centerline and it would bring the boom back down. Obvioulsy the inverse was true if we dropped the traveler. We switched over to Steve's set up a few years later with the cleat on the car and have seen significant improvement.

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