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Mine is not a true lazy jack
Posted By: Harry Gordon, wwp 14 #234, Mtn. View, CA Report: outside forum guidelines In Response To: Harry, never under estimate how confused I can become! (link) (pic) (Bill Nolen, P-15 Babe)
Date: 2/3/10 9:49p.m.
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It uses only a single loop of line. I went to the repository of all Potter wisdom (your web site) and found this drawing showing the one-line lazy jack as I rigged it on my gunter rig.
I use the same thing on the lateen rig, except the line loop should be further out on the boom as seen in the photo below. The hook on the boom and mast are not necessary, and I didn't use them on the lateen rig. In the photo below, the line is apparently routed under a mainsheet block. I ease the tension on the line at the cabintop block to keep the line slack when sailing.
I'm not currently using the lazyjack. I just lower the spars and sail to the cabintop, tie the halyard around the bundle, then hoist it all up out of the way. Lowering the spars to the cabintop necessitates keeping the bow headed into the wind at just the right angle to avoid dipping the sail in the water. The lazyjack is handier but complicates rigging. If I want to be neater, I also furl the bundle using the bungee strung along the boom. This shows the gunter rig, but I have the same thing on the lateen boom except I used wooden knobs instead of hooks to loop the bungee over.
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Lazy Jacks on a Lateen Rig 
-- Manny Rubin -- 2/2/10 5:51p.m.
Lateen-Lazy... -- Charley P14#729 -- 2/2/10 7:31p.m.
