Anonymous wrote:

I sail almost exclusively single handed. The junk rig makes this a lot more fun. But being out alone makes it difficult to get a good photo of the boat making way under sail.

Sometimes the experience is worth more than the picture. Or to put it another way, the picture depends on the viewer having had the experience to make it really come alive. After that, the picture quality is less important.

I took a video with my new (cheap) camera. It doesn't show anything new. I am sailing, the sheets are not quite right, and I need to clean the boat.

https://youtu.be/oFahxiAaqWI

Didn't notice the cleaning part but it did bring back the last sail I was on. Thank you for posting.

Annie wrote:

I always flake both sheet and halliard and never have problems with twists or kinks, but then I built deck boxes specifically to hold them out of the way. 

I'm afraid that the twisting halliard has everything to do with the swivel blocks and hardly anything to do with the rope, although three strand would be worse than braided.  Do yourself a favour and fix those blocks.  At worst, the twist can get so bad that you can neither raise nor lower the sail.  New rope always wants to twist anyway, at first, so if you are reeving brand new rope through those swivel blocks, you might end up with a headache.

I raised the full sail about 3 times getting the parrels attached. No twisting so far. I am flaking the lines into a pile on the cockpit seat for now. Building a deck box or a mesh bag is on the TODO list. The list is very long.

I will fix them in place next time the mast is down. I think I will need to experience some twist problems before I am motivated enough to take it down.

I always fake both sheet and halliard and never have problems with twists or kinks, but then I built deck boxes specifically to hold them out of the way. 

I'm afraid that the twisting halliard has everything to do with the swivel blocks and hardly anything to do with the rope, although three strand would be worse than braided.  Do yourself a favour and fix those blocks.  At worst, the twist can get so bad that you can neither raise nor lower the sail.  New rope always wants to twist anyway, at first, so if you are reeving brand new rope through those swivel blocks, you might end up with a headache.

On my three last junks I have not had problems with twist in the halyard. My guess is that this has two reasons:

• There are two blocks at the masthead plus two blocks or points at the slingpoint on the yard, sitting about 20cm apart. Together these will prevent the halyard from making a big twist.
• The tail of the halyard has not been coiled in my last three boats (Johanna, Frøken Sørensen and Ingeborg). They are all being stuffed in a canvas bag, mountain-climber style.

In case a rope has developed twist somehow, I toss one end over board and tow it for a while behind the boat, before hauling it back in. 
Even the sheet is never being coiled. During sailing it is dropped randomly on the cockpit floor. After the trip, the line is stuffed in a bag, just as the halyard.

This works well for me.

Arne

One trick I have learned is if you coil a rope clockwise every time, then you introduce twist in the rope. If you alternate between coiling clockwise then coiling anticlockwise, the twist cancels out and you get a nice relaxed rope that runs easily and does not twist when hoisted.