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Deck organiser recommendations

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Topic: Deck organiser recommendations

Posted By: Winner
Subject: Deck organiser recommendations
Date Posted: 12 October 2020 at 10:12am

My current starboard deck organiser has 5 lines running through it (jib halyard, kite halyard, boom vang, outhaul, reef). I've recently added a second main halyard and need to run that back to the cockpit as well.

Here's my current set up:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/swVYmvZMfzgxjAhx9

I could replace the entire unit with a 2 stack set of three sheaves. My main concern surrounds the fact that most of these deck organisers these days don't have a bottom to them, plus there is significant curve to the deck in this area, probably necessitating me fabricating a baseplate from PTFE or something.

The other option would be to install a simple bullseye fairlead to the outside of the current deck organiser and run the boom vang through that. Since the mechanical advantage of this line is so great I think the increased friction of the bullseye fairlead would be of negligible impact.

Any other thoughts are appreciated.

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Chris
Eclipse #240
Thunder Bay, ON

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Posted By: John Mills
Date Posted: 28 October 2020 at 8:56pm

Most interested to hear how this goes , was planing on replacing mine

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Unplugged
# 164
NOTL