![]() A foot of slack on the end makes the setup easy to trim while under sail and to loosen when removing the sail to head home. Install the fairlead cleat on the same side of the boom as where the line exits the outhaul blocks (port side in the picture below). The fairlead keeps the line captured at the boom if it gets out of hand. To make the outhaul as easy to attach as possible, add a snap shackle to the working end of the outhaul for hooking to the mainsail clew. Another option is to attach the working end of the line around one of the sheaves of the block itself, but that will result in less mechanical advantage. You might also need to shorten the becket on the one double block. To solve the challenge, use the shortest shackles you can find. If the combination of blocks and other hardware is too long when you tighten the outhaul, the blocks will meet in the middle before putting enough tension on the foot of the mainsail. On a C-22, there’s only about 10″ from the mainsail clew to the eye strap at the end of the boom. The challenge in this setup is to get the overall length of the outhaul as short as possible. AFTER – Easy to attach and trimmable Size does matter You could also use a bowline knot there but I prefer the neatness of spliced eyes, particularly here at the end of the boom where four lines are attached (main sheet not shown). Notice in the picture below that I spliced an eye in the end of the line where it attaches to the becket. The line is white with blue flecks in keeping with the color scheme that I describe in Choose Your Running Rigging Colors Logically. The pictures in this post show a five part (five line segments) outhaul only because those were the blocks that I had on hand when I rigged the outhaul. You could use fewer parts. 5′ x 1/4″ New England Ropes Sta Set or equivalent. ![]()
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