Single Handed Reefing & Lazy Jacks
This presentation from Chris shows how to setup a trailer sailer to be easily reefed single handed. It also describes how to go about setting up a Lazy Jack system for your main.
Chris Keevers
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Dry rough mud map of lazy jack system
This is a very simplistic diagram/ mud map of the lazy jack system on Deja Vue, from the boom there are 5 saddles and sister clips spaced along its length each side, using 3mm line there are risers going up to spinnaker blocks which are all interconnected to the longest line in the system, this line runs up through another pair of spinnaker blocks which are attached via bungee line to the spreaders, the line the continues on up the mast to another pair of spinnaker blocks attached to the mast above the spreaders.
lines then run down the front of the mast and are joined together a metre above the deck, this single line then passes through a turning block then another to take it up to the cabin top.
The idea off the bungee is to hold the jack lines out so that the sail can collapse into them more readily and to help prevent sail battens getting caught on the hoist, the whole system can be slackened to allow a boom tent to be put up, the sister clips are a bit fiddly at times.
