Hi New to sailing with gaff rig
friend has tiki 26 has gaff rig but not tiki rig if you know what i mean not exact design no sleeve around mast.
was wondering about the peak halyard, is tention on this used to tighten leech of main besides the main sheet??
Any help on trimming etc would be greatly appreciated
Thank you in advance
Robert :D
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Sun, 14/06/2009 - 10:16
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trimming gaff rig
Sun, 14/06/2009 - 17:13
#2
Re: trimming gaff rig
The peak halyard will have almost all the tension- try pinching and hardening until some vertical creases appear, then bear off and sheet in. something like that will lead in the right direction. There are some good posts on the old forum about trimming the gaff
Sun, 14/06/2009 - 17:21
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Re: trimming gaff rig
Hi, can we access the old forum ??? Jackie
Mon, 15/06/2009 - 01:42
#4
Re: trimming gaff rig
For the moment it seems to still be available for reading only, I had it bookmarked and the link still works
http://www.wharram.eu/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=Tiki
I have no idea if they intend to keep it available
Mon, 15/06/2009 - 14:29
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Re: trimming gaff rig
Hi Y'all, Thank you Casey for the address of the old forum, there's a wealth of information in there.
I have a baggy top third onmy mainsail, despite bearing down as hard as possible inthe peak
halliard. I'm going to reconnect it to the end of the gaff to see if this helps and I will report back
later, Regards, Jackie.
Tue, 16/06/2009 - 13:27
#6
Re: trimming gaff rig
Hi Jackie,
We had a similar problem on our Tiki 30 until we re-tightened the outhaul on the gaff. That fixed it.
Good luck,
Bob
Thu, 18/06/2009 - 13:19
#7
Re: trimming gaff rig
thank you :D
will try link to old forum :D