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GreenLake wrote:The exact angle matters, and may be different by fitting. Tim's picture doesn't look like the stock fitting I remember from someone else's boat . On that boat I experienced the case where sitting on the rail meant that the sheet could not be lowered enough to not immediately self cleat (in conditions where the boom was sheeted in tight). Luckily I was only "sitting" on the rail, not actually "hiking"...
DigitalMechanic wrote: For the mainsheet, I used the Harken 144 swivel cam cleat with a 57mm Harken fiddle. On the boom is a 57mm Harken auto-ratchet. The swivel cam solves the auto-cleating problem by reversing the un-cleat mechanism to an upwards pull. Again, you can hold the main sheet in hand or pull and cleat with a slight change on vertical angel.
Zinger88 wrote:
I noticed in a previous post shown below from Nov 2015 that you said your swivel cam base was a Harken 144. Did you change it out to the 205?
http://forum.daysailer.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5110&start=60#p27712DigitalMechanic wrote: For the mainsheet, I used the Harken 144 swivel cam cleat with a 57mm Harken fiddle. On the boom is a 57mm Harken auto-ratchet. The swivel cam solves the auto-cleating problem by reversing the un-cleat mechanism to an upwards pull. Again, you can hold the main sheet in hand or pull and cleat with a slight change on vertical angel.
Zinger88 wrote:I see where the 144 has a height of 5 3/4" and the 205 is 4 1/2". Perhaps that might make a difference height wise in where the cam cleat is located in relation to the line coming out of the block (i.e. different angle)? Thus the reason why I was wanting to confirm specifically which one you used just in case. Thanks!
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