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Mine snags the cleats every once in a while
Posted By: Carl, Horizon Cat/Picnic Cat, Central Texas Report: outside forum guidelines In Response To: Update/Correction (link) (Tom Ray)
Date: 5/10/08 10:38a.m.
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Jibing is the only time I have a problem, and the cure there is to make sure the sheet 'fall' comes inside the coaming. I'm a big one to talk, though, because my jibing in our Horizon Cat is not a thing to brag about. Back a year ago, I could jibe much smoother. Then came a lot of Picnic Cat sailing and the little boat just spoils me. No fuss at all there, but I've forgotten how to make a dignified jibe in the Horizon Cat. Truth to tell, my Horizon Cat jibes have often been fit for the stage. Like those two masks that symbolize theater, my jibes have always been either a little tragic, or a bit comic. Seems like what worked was I sheeted in hard enough to flatten the sail so it wouldn't pull reverse airfoil style, leech pointing into the wind. Or maybe it was keeping the sail so close to centerline that kept it from doing much. Rather than put a lot of tension on the sail, though, I think I'll see if sheeting in to a boom angle of 45 degrees or so and handing the boom over from there will work acceptably. There are parts and pieces of this sailing business that seem to work OK for me, but I've got to do something about some glaring educational gaps. Anyway, as soon as I can I'm getting out on the Horizon Cat to relearn the art of the jibe. Been a strange six months of sailing, really. Through the cold part of the year the Horizon Cat trailer was down for axle replacements, and then I got this bug up my rear to replace the Horizon Cat's electrical panel. It's a woodworking project, and I am not particularly good or fast at that sort of thing. It will come out fine, though, and I believe I'm gaining something of real value - a complete understanding of just how big a slice of eternity it would take me to build a boat. Hmmm... Does a vang soften jibes? If the boom lifts while it's swinging over, does that add to the 'snap' factor when it hits on the new side? Or would the reverse be true? If a topping lift brought the boom up, sagging the sail, would it jibe in a less catastrophic way?
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Can Suncat be "upgraded" to end-boom sheeting? 
-- Rahn Lawton (2 Hobie Adventure Islands and close to buying another Suncat) -- 5/4/08 6:13p.m.
Yes Sir Re....You don't need 
