Morning,
Can anyone kindly provide a line drawing or info as how to rig the single reef line for a Nonsuch 260? This is a slab reefing method where the clew line runs inside the carbon fiber wishboom and connects to the tack as well. In other words , one line is used to reef both the tack and clew line simultaneously from the cockpit. It’s duplicated for the second reef.
At the bow end of the boom there are two lines that exit the boom and when you pull on one, the other tensions up and visa versa. I don’t comprehend how the line running back to the clew connects to this setup. Scratching my head here. Thnx..
Gary Forster / Aloki (not a 260)
This is also called “jiffy reefing”. I never knew that this method was used on Nonsuches (but maybe, it has to do with carbon fibre booms). Interesting.
IMHO slab reefing would be difficult on a Nonsuch because
a) the “boom” is not directly below the sail
b) the “boom” is not at a fixed fore and aft position relative to the mast
You would have to give up draft control and I think you would be stressing the wishboom in directions it wasn’t meant to be stressed.
I ran my first reefing outboard pennant through the starboard aluminium wishboom and the topping lift through the port side. They decluttered the wishboom while reducing windage and havens for spiders. I never contemplated using slab reefing with the wishboom. It is imperative that the tack reefing pennants be kept drum tight when reefed to prevent the choker ripping out the tack in heavy weather. I doubt that can be accomplished with slab reefing with a wishbone. It is one of the reasons I adopted my gaff rig so I could use slab reefing. It has proved itself over the years and has been particularly useful for single handed sailing in my 80’s.
The gaff rig is far better balanced which allows me to sail with full sail with winds up to 30 knots. I only have one reefing pennant even though my sail is set up for two since it is unlikely that I would go sailing in winds that would justify the second reef. However, if I were caught out in a full gale, it would not take long to thread the reefing pennant through the second reef pennants.
John Newell
Mascouche 26C 1
Toronto
Mascouche running through the western gap at speed with a single slab reef deployed. Photo taken by Dr. Norman Freedman, Nonsuch 30U, National Yacht Club
Because the single-line reefing system was introduced with the newer boats, most of us – including me – have little to no experience regarding it.
I did take a look at the manual on-line, though, and found some information which might help.
If you download the Nonsuch 260 manual from the www.Nonsuch.org website, you’ll find the diagram I think you’re looking for on the very last page. That page is numbered as page 68 in the text, but the PDF counts only 65 pages, so it appears that the on-line copy is missing a few somewhere.
Gary,
Go to the 260 manual in the Membership section of the INA site. The diagram is the last page of the manual. Page 68 of the manual 66 of the PDF.
Mark Powers
I definitely wish you luck on threading lines through that double block, Gary.
As near as I can figure out from the drawing, the double block has to somehow be able to slide forward (and backward) in the boom because the forward lower part of the reefing line being drawn back to the cockpit looks like the key to tightening both forward and aft ends of the reef.
If that block can be slide back close to the one of the line entry holes through the boom, that might make it easier.
I am Richard Westin, proud new owner of Intuition IX and confused by the rigging diagrams and language.
I know the manual is supposed to be all one needs, but given how novel the boat is to me I would be grateful for any photos of how the all reeling lines are organized.
Richard: One of the reasons that we sign each post with the name of the boat and where the boat lives is that you may find another boat like yours nearby.
Regards,
Joe Valinoti
S/V iL Gatto NS30U #221
Sea Harbour YC
Oriental, NC USA
I have an NS22, and it has 4 reefing lines (2 tack, 2 clew lines), and often wondered about the feasibility of using a 2 line jiffy reefing system (2 tack/clew lines). In an earlier post, it appears that someone has this?
Congratulations on your acquisition and joining a most exclusive but welcoming club of savvy sailors. For me, it would be helpful for you to share photos of your existing reefing line arrangements, so I can get a sense of what you have as a basis to offer thoughts on options and alternatives. Is that possible and would it be helpful to you?
All I can detect in my diagram that I can understand is that there are two lines, one each per reefing grommet. Each is tied to the boom, goes to the grommet, returns, enters a local block, runs forward through leads to the forward block, down, through another block and turns to the cockpit.
From these conversations, there seem to be a second set of lines that I do not understand. Perhaps the terminology is confusing me.
I was hoping for a photo, but an explanation of the “second lines” would be great.
Richard,
Unless I missed it, your reef description seems to only include the line attached to the sail’s clew. There’s a second line at the mast that attaches to a cringle on the sail luff. Actually there are two pairs of reef lines for each of the first and second reefs.
As I understand single line slab reefing, it would be hard to accomplish with a wishbone rig where the forward end of the “boom” is high above the tack of the sail reefed or not.
In the slab reefing I have used on previous boats, the line would start aft on the boom, go up through the reef cringle, return to the other side of the boom aft, run along the boom to the forward end, turn up and go through the tack reef cringle, return to the forward boom, and then run aft to the cockpit. This obviously requires the boom to be at the bottom of the sail.
(Even on a much smaller sail this line becomes VERY LONG)
