Thanks Robert for the idea
I checked out the diagram. I feel it would work for the single mast set up but not satisfy the schooner set up.
For cruisers,the ww hull is already about 3m over so snatch blocks at the junctions of the beams and ww hull should be enough without the added complexity of a jammed traveller, though it does reduce the load and length of the sheet.
For my schooner rig, If it starts to prove a hassle, I will have to run a snatch block on a cable between the bows or go to a single mast.
Going dead downwind, one can always bring the aft sail aback

--- In harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au, "robertbiegler" <Robert.Biegler@...> wrote:
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> --- In harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au, Gardner Pomper <gardner@> wrote:
> > you still only end up with a sheeting angle
> > of about 15 degrees, when the boom is fully out perpendicular to the
> > boat, on a downwind run.
> >
> > I know there has been alot of talk about schooner rig for the harrys,
> > so someone must have worked out this problem. What's the solution?
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> A suggestion is at http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/gMflSriHHzXL6WEBFmv0B5iVwrdirAcw_fmmcBJX6s28spCvOHdh_DG6rNqW7G527thD73f6f-7cUe8XmScEbfAoPm4gvvRaRUY68F8/Snatchblock%20repl.jpg (Snatchblockrepl.jpg in the Files section). It should be possible to adapt the idea for a schooner rig. This is vapourware, so I make no promises that it will work if you rig a boat that way.
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> Regards
>
> Robert Biegler
>

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