running backstays

[Brian]

Those of you P40 owners with running backstays - where do you attach them aft? If you have pad eyes installed, where are they in relation to the aft cleats? I got nothin but cleats back there...

 

And a related question: Where do you run the staysail sheets? Do you have tracks mounted on top of the cabin or single blocks? Where? Then back to the winches/clutches under the dodger? Again, I got nothin there now. I'm thinking a single block would involve less destruction of the ceiling below...Got photos?

 

Thanks!

 

Brian

'84 P40 Toloa

Deale, MD

[Michael Moradzadeh]

I am having a hard time imagining where one would need them. The lowers
provide plenty of support and shape.

What led to this desire? A staysail?

Michael

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[Beller Family]

We have U-bolts installed just after of the cleats on the coaming - thru-bolted.   The running backs are spectra line that won't clang on the mast when eased.  They're terminated in a 6-1 purchase at the deck level for tightening them.  The bottom of the purchase block has a snap shackle so it can be conveniently disconnected and pulled forward out of the way.

 

We have a three foot section of track mounted on the cabin top on either side of the mast (again thru-bolted).  So we had to poke some holes in the inside ceiling paneling.  They're covered up with another piece of teak trim.  The sheets run back through bulls-eyes (those black plastic things) to the dodger and to a winch on the cabin top under the corner of the dodger (right next to our halyard winches.  It's tight but works.  They don't get used often so the tight space is not a problem.  A single block could work if you managed to get it in just the right spot - hard to the correct position until you go sailing.  That said, we almost never move the lead while sailing, since we don't like to go forward in the kind of conditions where we fly the staysail.

 

We have only used the staysail a handful of times in big winds offshore, but we were sure glad to have it.  We've run downwind comfortably in 40-50kts true with just the staysail.  The vessel goes comfortably upwind in 30kts. true with double reefed main and staysail.    Coastal sailing it's a pain in the butt when tacking the regular heasail, so we usually disconnect the lower end of the stay and lash it back by the mast out of the way. 

 

Jeff

S/V Journey

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