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A lot going on here and since the sail-pack is involved you might also want to see the construction pages of it ( HERE ). The bottom right and bottom left arrows point to cheek blocks for the single line reefing that so far I like, but have just used it on the trailer. The bottom middle arrow points to where a bullseye fairlead will go. The second arrow up from the bottom on the left shows how the front of the pack is folded in while the sail is up and is what I was talking about on the last page in regards to an inside female buckle half.
The rest of the lines are the lazy-jack lines. Just cloths line at this stage. I'm going to move the lower right loop up just a little higher on the finished 1/4 inch braided line and try it there. If I did this over I might be tempted to try one more lazy-jack line at the very back, but the sail does flake down very nicely and the reefing pulls the back down and into the pack just fine as is.
The top arrow points to blocks that are spaced 12 inches out on the spreaders and can be moved in or out if needed. They seem to work fine there and I didn't have issues raising the sail on the trailer, the battens didn't snag the spreaders (Note (JAN 2011): on the water they did catch a couple times, but not a big deal raising the sail at the mast. It might be if the main halyard went to the cockpit).
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Notice that even thought the back lazy-jack line is at a sever angle the D-ring, tab and tubing distribute the load over the sail-pack nicely.
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A top view showing the cloths line used to mock up the lazy-jack lines. It will be replaced with 1/4 inch braided line (see further down the page). Notice also....
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... that we have a topping lift. This is key and keeps the load off of the lazy-jack lines.
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Putting the sail away at night will be really easy and fast now and if we sit in one place for a few days it will be protected also. This proved to be true while using the sail-pack and lazy-jacks during the first outing with them below. I don't dread taking the main down anymore and trying to gather it up and tie it off.
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The following pictures were taken on the water on our Fall of 2010 trip to Florida. We replaced the mockup cloths line shown in the pictures above with 1/4 inch braided line. The lazy jacks performed great on the trip and there is no plans on changing them at this point.
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A couple notes on the lazy-jack lines (arrows) and how they are setup vs. the pictures above on this page.
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Right before the trip I added the small cheek blocks to the mast (top arrows). Now there is virtually no downward load on the spreaders as the blocks there just hold the lazy jack lines out some. I don't think there was much load before since...
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.... we use a topping lift (arrow) that supports the boom when the sail is down, but if I was to forget that line and not have it adjusted right the weight of the boom/sail would be on the lazy-jack lines. Now there is no worries that I'm putting a downward pull on the spreaders.
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