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John Russell
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Initially Posted - 06/15/2007 :  10:06:58  Show Profile
I was thinking about a boom restrainer yesterday as I was dead down wind. I was thinking about it. I didn't do it. I wish I had. My 40Lb 8y/o daughter caught the mainsheet (the lengths between the blocks)in the jaw when the wind shifted and the boom went flying. Scared the hell oughta me and her. She ended up on the cockpit floor with a bloody lip. I'll surely tie it off the next time I'm downwind.

The question is: Where do I secure the restrainer? I'm picturing a flying stanchion if I use that. I have a starboard midship cleat (for docking) that I could use but anybody have an idea for the port side? I thought about using a winch but they are aft of the boom when the sail is that far out.

I'm thinking about making a line just for this purpose using a caribiner or some other kind of clip to attach to the boom at the mainsheet shackle. I'll just tie it at the other end.

Anybody have any clever solutions?
John Russell
1999 C250 SR/WK #410
Bay Village, Ohio
Sailing Lake Erie
Don't Postpone Joy!
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 06/15/2007 :  14:01:07  Show Profile
I was thinking of putting a snap shackle at the boom end of the vang. Just unshackle the vang and shackle it to the stanchion ring that the "baby stays" connect to when raising the mast, or put in another attachment point such as a folding padeye. Then the vang is your preventer.

I am glad it was the mainsheet and not the boom that caused the injury. I feel for you and your daughter, a scary moment.
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bear
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Response Posted - 06/16/2007 :  07:02:55  Show Profile
I have used a 1/2 " bungee chord with the hooks on both ends.
One end around the end of the boom and the other around the mid point stanchion for the last six years. Changed it out after probably three years of use to the same thing.
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 06/16/2007 :  10:40:11  Show Profile
Bear, with all due respect, the potential forces on a main during an accidental jibe could, I believe, overwhelm a bungee and its connections (the hooks). I am glad it has worked for you but I want something more robust.
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crcalhoon
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Response Posted - 06/16/2007 :  10:56:22  Show Profile
Maybe I'm way off base here, but I'll kick in. I was always taught that the boom vang was second choice for a preventer, and should only be used in light to moderate air. I like to rig a preventer from the ouboard end of the boom, all the way forward back through a chock to a cleat in the cockpit. That way I can throw it off in a hurry if necessary and worry about re-routing it later. I don't see it being a lot more trouble re-routing that type of preventer than I do in transferring a boom vang or handy billy from one side of the boat to the other. Plus, all you need for my way is about 50-60 feet of line, preferably nylon to give a little shock absorbency. And I think the strain is better distributed through che chock, around the cleat and back to another cleat in the cockpit. I wouldn't have a great many worries about making it fast to a stanchion base at the cockpit, because the strain would be horizontal, rather than vertical, and I believe that the through bolted stanchions would hold that very well indeed. Just my two cents.
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Jarrett Anderson
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Response Posted - 06/17/2007 :  10:26:01  Show Profile
I use a 25' dock line. I tie the loop into a larks foot around the end of the boom and tie it off to the forward cleat. I do this any time I'm on a run for safety.

Jarrett _/)
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