My jib line is getting snagged on mast base , downhaul cleats and anything else around mast base. Drives me crazy in higher winds as i am halfway through a tack !! It is a Prindle 19 , Is there something missing on my setup?
Do you have a preventer?
Run a piece of 1/4" bungee from the outside of the front beam-through the bottom of the diamond wires-over to the far side of the beam.
That will deflect the jib blocks/sheet away from the mast base/cleat
E C Hilliard
Nacra 5.7
Bombardier Invitation
Edchris177 wrote: Do you have a preventer?
Run a piece of 1/4" bungee from the outside of the front beam-through the bottom of the diamond wires-over to the far side of the beam.
That will deflect the jib blocks/sheet away from the mast base/cleat
+1 Had 18' Prindle with same issues. An extra piece of trap bungee solved the problem.
I will set that up.. thanks for the help
A pictures worth a thousand words. This is not my cat, i just cribbed the photo from one of the albums.
You can clearly see the preventer, looks like an inverted "V".
Click the photo to see full size
Edited by Edchris177 on Jul 03, 2016 - 11:57 PM.
E C Hilliard
Nacra 5.7
Bombardier Invitation
If you have a mast rotator, the jib sheet might still get snagged with the preventer rigged as shown in the picture submitted by Edchris. I solved this by running the ends of the bungee forward and outboard to the the bridle foil tangs. You can make a simple attachment using using small diameter line looped around the tang and add plastic clips to the bungee ends.
a single bungee attached under the jib furler (if there is one), or similar location and the other end connected to the mast will have the same results
MN3