Main sheet cleat with a difference

teeth

I'll second "sit on it", for sheer simplicity.

Hi "Robin"

Yeah, that sort of setup might actually work well with my new boat (it has a bridle at the back already). I wonder how it'll go with all those blocks in the system though - could add a decent amount of friction.

Is it possible to get a system like that to work with a swivelling cleat (on the floor) - scratching my head now trying to figure out how it would exit from below and then work its way through a normal deck-mounted swivel cleat.

Hi Andy,

Did you ever get to taking some pics of your "modified ronstan swivel" boom sheeting? I'm after something exactly like that for a three sail single hander I've just picked up (well, a three sail boat normally sailed by two, but with a small enough rig that one on trapeze can handle it in all but crazy heavy wind).

If I understand you right you're talking about the RF7 swivelling cam clear base? Which I guess you've mounted up-side-down on the boom with the cleat on the "underside" (now top side) of the arm, and the fairlead removed - but the sheet still goes through the "slot" in the arm?

Would love to see the photo's if you did take them!

Dan

Rich Perkins managed to come up with a system when he had a 12 for centre sheeting, not sure how it worked, but I think it was led along the floor somehow. The Cleet on clothing has been done before, there was an article some time back about the lass who sails on the Sonar, with only one hand. She used to crew a 29er, and had a cleat attached to her trapeze harness. Seemed to work well.