paxfish 5 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Guys - Are you actively rotating your wingmast on various points of sail? Similar to our Hobie 16, my Wildfire/GBE mast seems to find a happy spot on it's own without me having to adjust the line on the rotator. When I say happy, I mean that the backside of the mast transitions nicely into the leeward side of the sail at various points of sail. Are there any issues with this? Certainly, on a broad reach, I can see that the leeward shroud (Dyneema) is touching the mast at the hounds (although from deck level, no apparent chafe.) Do you all see any issues with this? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
erice 732 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 on most points of sail rotating masts look after themselves but if the win is light or the traveller way out you often won't get the best mast angle only then might you want a little more rotation if you don't have the wishbone and tackle already it's pretty hard to justify the cost and hassle of using the gear like blowing all the gains by forgetting to release it all before a tack Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clive 13 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 on most points of sail rotating masts look after themselves Not on Deeds or Tigre, I installed a positive mast rotation system on both Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tim C 23 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 The tail of my jib car pulls the mast around on each tack, and it's limited by a central rotation rope. So each tack it is automatically set and rotated. I can manually rotate and lock it if need be. But then no spreaders means it HAS to be rotated, and there is no boom load to rotate it, so it all took some thinking about... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clive 13 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 The tail of my jib car pulls the mast around on each tack, and it's limited by a central rotation rope. So each tack it is automatically set and rotated. I can manually rotate and lock it if need be. But then no spreaders means it HAS to be rotated, and there is no boom load to rotate it, so it all took some thinking about... That was a good idea. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paxfish 5 Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 Thanks Guys - those comments are very helpful. (composing next question./... ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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