bjmoose
Member
I searched the forum for traveller cleat slipping and didn't get anything usefule, so I guess this is a new topic.
Last night it wasn't that windy, but puffy all over the place.
Every time I looked, my traveller line had eased through the cleat two or four inches from where I'd set it.
This did NOT make me happy.
Does this happen to everyone? How do I prevent it or minimize it?
The line's a thin hi-tech double braid of some type, (I have no idea exactly what but it is NOT Dacron) and it appears to be appropriately sized to the cleat.
Is it ever appropriate to set the traveller on anything OTHER than "as tight as possible?" If so I could rig it up at the dock tied off with a trucker's hitch that gave more tension than I could ever get by tugging through the cleat out on the water.
Last night it wasn't that windy, but puffy all over the place.
Every time I looked, my traveller line had eased through the cleat two or four inches from where I'd set it.
This did NOT make me happy.
Does this happen to everyone? How do I prevent it or minimize it?
The line's a thin hi-tech double braid of some type, (I have no idea exactly what but it is NOT Dacron) and it appears to be appropriately sized to the cleat.
Is it ever appropriate to set the traveller on anything OTHER than "as tight as possible?" If so I could rig it up at the dock tied off with a trucker's hitch that gave more tension than I could ever get by tugging through the cleat out on the water.