twisting mainsheet

Listoids: This is a Cal 20 question. The standard mainsheet arrangement has two blocks, one on either side of the cockpit aft. The mainsheet goes up to the boom end block and over, down to the other side, and up and back again. The blocks are on swivels. Somehow, my sheet gets twisted, and as I come about, one block swivels so the two parts of the mainsheet twist around each other. This is a fairly high-friction sheet arrangement to start with, and when two passing parts of the line twist around each other, it's really sticky. I keep un-reeving the sheet and un-twisting the sheet, and it keeps twisting again. At first, I thought it was because I was coiling the sheet when moored. Now I figure-8 the bitter end of the sheet but it still ends up twisted. I'm using double-braid, Sta-Set as I recall. What's the curse here? Chris Campbell

Don't know the cure but I had the same problem when I experimented with a two part boom vang system. It was also Sta Set double braid. Woody Cal-34 Chris Cambell wrote: > Listoids: > > This is a Cal 20 question. The standard mainsheet arrangement has two > blocks, one on either side of the cockpit aft. The mainsheet goes up to > the boom end block and over, down to the other side, and up and back > again. The blocks are on swivels. > > Somehow, my sheet gets twisted, and as I come about, one block swivels > so the two parts of the mainsheet twist around each other. This is a > fairly high-friction sheet arrangement to start with, and when two > passing parts of the line twist around each other, it's really sticky. > > I keep un-reeving the sheet and un-twisting the sheet, and it keeps > twisting again. > > At first, I thought it was because I was coiling the sheet when moored. > Now I figure-8 the bitter end of the sheet but it still ends up > twisted. I'm using double-braid, Sta-Set as I recall. > > What's the curse here? > > Chris Campbell > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >