Recent content by Jean Moran

What happens to the Dousing Sock? Re: "Classic Tri Halyard Masthead" Thanks for all of the comments. We will go out in San Francisco Bay and try it (remember that San Francisco Bay has the fog effect of 15 - 20 Knots of breeze throughout the summer). It will be about a month before we have...

We are in the process of replacing(1-3 cables at a time)the standing rigging on our 1982 Ericson 38. We plan on tuning the rigging ourselves. Does anyone have the specifications for the tension we whould set the rigging to? Thanks in advance.

We need to modify the masthead to fly a spinnaker. There are three existing jib halyards: one dedicated to the roller furling, one to the port, and one to the strbd. We are planning to pull the mast and are considering if we should attach some kind of vale with a block outside of everything to...