Jib pendant

[Jason]

Hi Everyone,

I am writing to share that I added a jib pendant to my rig this year and I think it has been a nice improvement.  I made one by tying loops in both ends of a piece of dyneema line. About a foot long. It raises the tack of the jib and I would cite 2 benefits:  better visibility under the jib, and elimination of interference of the jib with the bow pulpit.  A potential downside could be the raising of the center of effort of the jib, but I did not experience any issue with that.   You can see a good picture of how the pendant raises up the jib in my recent "journeys and destinations" post about a trip to northern Lake Michigan: http://cpyoa.geekworkshosting.com/forum/index.php?topic=7803.msg57405#msg57405

Happy sailing

Jason

[Pacman]

Raising the jib can offer another advantage:  It changes the sheet angle so that there is less tension on the foot of the jib and greater tension on the leech.  

That remedies the sail shape on the standard C-16 which can often have too much tension on the foot of the sail and not enough tension on the leech for good sail shape.

Raising and lowering the jib on the forestay has a similar effect to moving jib cars fore and aft on adjustable jib sheet cars and it is a whole lot less costly.

I have considered using an jib pendant for that purpose.

Also, set up correctly, an adjustable jib pendant would be easier to use than jib sheet cars on a track.

[capt_nemo]

Pacman,

Assuming adequate forestay length for adjustment, strongly agree with jib pendant vs. cars on track.

And, if "adjustable jib pendant" means led back to safety of cockpit, so much the better!

Sailing solo most of the time, I've minimized the necessity to go forward on my boat by leading control lines back to the cockpit.

capt_nemo

[deisher6]

The concept is very cool.  I have never thought of adjusting the sheeting angle by the height that the jib's tack off the deck.  Our last C-16 had a track to adjust the angle but our first one did not.

Great stuff.

regards charlie

[Duckie]

My compac came with both new and old sails.  It turned out that the old standard jib would fit on my weekender.  In order to get it to tension right I had to use a pendant to lift it about a foot off the bow sprit.  Now it pulls equally on both foot and leech.  I can't change the block attachment so getting the sail to pull equally was my best bet for all conditions.  That new sail really pumped up the performance of my weekender.  I might rig a barber hauler next year just to play around.  That should give me more adjustments for different points of sail and wind speed.

Al