Cavi
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My new to me laser has two cleats one on either isde for the mainsheet. I wouldrather have a central camcleat off the main block. Is that class legal?
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andy that block you show in the picture looks different, I do not know if the Harken one that they were talking about can be inverted. What is the brand and model of the one you are showing?
Cskudder,
I recently found someone who used this very ratcheting block with great success on his Sunfish. Except he reversed the hardware.... flipping the cam from upside down to right side up.
So, I got one, flipped it too like you see in the photo, then mounted it on my Laser. I got this ratchet/cam cleat block set up because I wanted to have this "3rd hand" for my wife as she learned to sail the Laser. So she only had to take a slack main sheet across the boat in her hand while learning how to tack.
But with the cam cleat flipped, it was completely useless. The main sheet wouldn't stay because of the geometry of how the main sheet pulls up on the block side of the set up.
So, here's my question. How well does the main sheet stay cleated on your Laser with your ratcheted block with the cam cleat in the original, "facing down" position? And, with that little fairlead on it, how often does your sheeting out come to an abrupt stop because a twist/knot won't go through the fairlead?
Thanks,
- Andy
Excellent. I plan on semi rigging my boat in the yard in the next couple of days and playing with the cam angle adjustment. When I get the right angle, I'll make a short video and post it here.This is the one I ordered, and it also does allow for angle adjustment. I hope to have mine for this weekend to try it out.
Andy, what is that sail on your boat in your avatar? Is it the Laser Trubo, suaretop from Hansen sails?
update, I flipped the cam cleat upside down so it is facing upwards like in the picture of the sunfish. It functions almost great now, it does not get in the way and works okay, I need to change the angle slightly but deffinitly an improvement over the downward facing cleat. Now I can cleat in when I want and I can uncleat real easy and there is no fear of it cleating by mistake. When it was facing down, it was tough to cleat and worse, there were times it was tough to uncleat due to sa soft spring.
As bad as this sounds, after sailing the boat with the central cleat, I have decided to remove it, it does get in the way too many times...... Back to a single ratcheting block and just the cleats on the side of the boat!!