David Thatcher wrote:For non adjusting parrels try webbing, it slides very easily.

Has anybody compared the friction of webbing with rope inside hard slippery plastic hose?

I think I'm going to try something like Paul Fay's system on my mizzen next, and I do want to manage the friction as best I can.

Kurt Jon Ulmer wrote:

Lateral thinking...

Barry: '...instead of tying off to the becket, I just tied the tail around the yard.'

Great idea! In any odd-purchase halyard, this can distribute a fraction of the lifting load to another point on the yard, and add a little peaking-up, if tied aft of the sling point. 

Substituting a knot and 2 single blocks, for a double block with a becket, spreads the lift over three points in a 5:1 halyard. This is geometrically way better than a bridle with very little height above the yard. 

A related trick is to tie the halyard's tail to the deck, giving one less purchase (5:1 becomes 4:1) and keeping the tail handy for re-reeving.

Kurt

... but be careful. If you have a double or triple block at the masthead, the leads of the parts of the halyard into that block will be offline. Better to use single blocks at the masthead if you want to use this idea.

For non adjusting parrels try webbing, it slides very easily.

Back on topic here...my mizzen is pretty close to a classic Hasler-McLeod shape with a high aspect ratio, and I don't think it really will need the downhaul function very much.

So I just fixed short parrels which should limit the forward motion of the battens. I couldn't do enough to make for full positive stagger, as the mast is raked aft and I tried to set the sail almost vertical...so the upper battens need to slide forward compared to the lower ones. But the mast is tapered starting between the first and second battens above the boom, so that will help me here.

Since my top panels have more length in the luff than normal, I moved my standing throat parrel so it goes between the yard and the top batten instead of the one below it.

I also adjusted the sling point on the yard slightly--My three-part yard uses a block attached to the yard, and instead of tying off to the becket, I just tied the tail around the yard. I moved the tail from a foot past the block to a foot forward of the block. Now my yard goes aft enough to allow my YHP to do something at full hoist or one panel reefed.

I should be sailing again possibly later today, and tomorrow for sure...so I'll report what this does.

Barry

Hey admins...can you help? It looks like my thread got hijacked by the system putting stuff about Teleport in the NW Passage into it! Can you figure out where they belong and put them back there?