Erik and Evi Menzel Ivey wrote:I think travellers are out for me.  Certainly on the mizzen, which is sheeted to a boomkin on off the stern.  The main sheet is on-center, and I could see on a longer leg ttaking it to the rail if the sheeting angles are substantially better.  

Kurt - thanks for the encouragement to cheat :)  I think if the short sheet-spans creates an issue on a reach or run, that may not be too bad.  On the wind would be a bigger issue 

David - its the other David's Footprints sheetlets that look short.  Maybe it is the angle though.

Erik

The sheetlets on 'Footprints' are all to the recommended PJR lengths so it must be the angle of the photograph that makes them look shorter. Certainly the sheeting on Footprints' sail has been a success with little or no twist in the leech and everything self adjusting well when the sail is reefed down. The top sheetlet has an anti twist span which also seems to be very successful. The only thing I did wrong was to use some small blocks with swivels as part of the sheet to sheetlet connections and I have experience some twisting of the mainsheet, although this has mostly not occurred now I have a new braided line sheet. 

When Tystie was rigged as a ketch, she had port and starboard sheets on each sail, initially. With the deck blocks set well out to each side, the drift is rather greater than it would appear in a side-on view, and the spans can be longer. It would be a similar case if the deck blocks were mounted on a traveller. Later on, I tried using a single sheet on the mainsail, which didn't need to be sheeted as close as the mizzen, and then I had to suffer the shortcomings of short spans.

As I peruse the great pictures members have posted of their rigs, I keep checking out the various sheet and sheetlet setups.  And it seems that some folks are using less than the PJR recommended 2P on their sheetlets.  It is a little hard to tell from photos and given the angles.  Not naming names...  yet :)