cunningham

Hello folks- I have just gotten my new main (with 3 reefs, joy!) and cut-down jib (now 90%). The sail has a cunningham grommet... I used to use the cunningham on J24's, but for the Ericson (E34 style rig) I could just use halyard tension... I am thinking of setting up the cunningham, though...

Good morning all, Is there anyone with an E27 who would be so kind as to shoot a couple of pictures of your boom, traveller and mainsheet rigging? We haven't changed anything since we bought the boat. To clarify, we brought our boat home the middle of May, then July 1st it went into the shop...

I have an 1973 Ericson- 27 , on my 155 Genoa there is a cringle on the luff edge about 2' up from the tack . The sail is hanked on . can anyone tell me what it is for ?

Hi; i recently bot a (used) main with 2 rings I'm not familiar with; maybe the forward is a cunningham; the aft one is a mystery to me. How do these work? and when? It seems to me that all they would do is reduce sail area. the sail is shelf footed; I don't know if that has anything to do...

Just wondering - why do big boats put a Cunningham Eye in their mainsails? Surely you can achieve the same effect by just tensioning and easing the halyard (cant usually do that on a dinghy because it is cleated off and no winches). Cheers, Roger Kingston, ON Starlight II E38 200

I have a 1983 E28+ that has no Cunningham. I would like to rig one and have seen what looks like some pretty good examples on the Harken web site. Any suggestions on what works well? One concern is using a Cunningham hook vs just threading a line through the Cunningham grommet in the sail...