Advantage of boom end sheeting?

What is the advantage of using a bridle off the transom and leading along the boom to a single block on the centreboard case, compared with a 4:1 tackle in the centre of the boom.

Also how does the purchase of the boom end system compare with 4:1 in the centre? If the final block was on the transom it would be 2:1 which is equivalent to 4:1 in the middle, but how does the purchase compare when the final block is on the centreboard?

endboom, and sheeting off the boom clears up the middle of the boat, allows you to sheet right into the middle, typically dosent let you pull leech tension with the sheet though.

midboom, allows you to give the boom a lick mid gybe, and pull leech tension, but at the expense of space and boom in the middle,

Tony

What boat are you talking about as there are different ways to get the extra purchase depending on class.  RS200s will have the extra block on the bridle aft and alter the bridle length depending on rake, where a Fireball will have the extra "granny" block on the centreboard case.  This is assuming you still have a jammer on teh case and are not going Enterprise/Mirror style.

The gybing problem can be sorted with a gybing strop, and the 2 sail issue can be sorted by just taking the right fall of teh sheet straight from the boom, as Ben Ainslie does in the Finn.

Personally I think hoops are a bad idea (unless it has a traveller like a Merlin) as you can't centre the main in the light stuff without getting loads of s-l-o-w leech tension.  A properly set up bridle system (split end mainsheet or aft block) should allow you to do this fine.

Yeah, but the Laser gybing style wont translate to a 3 sail boat. Gybing handle very useful on many boats.

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Gybing; just make sure you get the boom in before
you go into the gybe so it comes across earlier in the
gybe and doest create a load of momentum. I you
leave it out the gybe happens at the end of a big turn.
and comes across very quick. if you bing it into the
boat first the turn is less to get the boom across and
easyer to handle.[/QUOTE]

Yikes!!!! This may work in yachts but always up with everything going green in any dinghy I have sailed

I prefer a decent gybing handle on something like a Fireball (obviously not an option on a Cherub or similar skiff (and let's not get back into the Cherub is not a skiff debate, it is, I've put it right at the end of the skiff wall and very high up so no-one can reach it) most importantly coupled with a well timed burst of "opposite lock" on the tiller just after the boom crosses the centreline. 

In big breeze if your boom is anywhere near the centreline whilst being sheeted in you will swim.