Hi Greg

To be competitive, it is essential to be able to adjust just about everything on
the water.
Conditions change and different points of sailing require different adjustments
to optimise
performance. Your jib tack is probably lashed in some way to the luff wire.
All you need do is unlash the tack from the jib wire. When rigging, take a line
from the eye
in the jib tack, through a small block shackled to the fore stay plate, just
behind the luff wire
and back through a V cleat mounted on the fore deck near the mast.

There are many alternate rigs, some prefer to take the line from the stay plate,
up through
the tack eye and back through the above mentioned block which gives a little
leverage though
probably unnecessary makes fine adjustment easier.

You can also arrange a block on either side or the tack eye and V cleats on each
gunwale,
near the side stays. That way you can run the luff tension line from one V
cleat, across the fore deck,
through one block, up through the tack eye, back down through the other block,
and across the fore
deck to the other V cleat. That way you can adjust jib luff tension without
ever coming inboard.

On our old Vag, we used systems like this for the Main luff and foot tension too
so the sail shape could
be adjusted while fully powered.

The most important jib adjustment is the sheet block position though. I am not
sure what corsair rules
allow but the best jib sheet block position for working and reaching are
different.
Watch the jib twist (luff tell tales).


Regards,
Ken


-----Original Message-----
From: gregb665 [mailto:gregb@...]
Sent: Friday, 23 January 2004 9:51 AM
To: CorsairAustralia@...
Subject: [CorsairAustralia] jib luff tension


Can anyone provide some advice on jib luff tensioning systems. My
jib is currently fixed to the wire rope at both ends providing no
means of adjustment. I have seen some systems which allow luff
tension to be adjusted on-water. Is this the preferred approach or
is it over complicating things?
Regards
Greg



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