In another deadeye thread here I mentioned that I hesitated to mention setting up by taking in lee slack since it really is wrong. Here's the thing - Why wrong? Because it's really easy to set the rig up slanted (which really the wind does not care about too much) or with the mast out of athwartships column. Absolutely one should not fine tune this way if you have turnbuckles or if you have tools. But if you've no tools and a sloppy rig and if you make in less than half the available slack on each tack, monitoring the colum and testing for centering, it can be done. Slow and easy.
Anyway, I hope Jamie or someone finds his pictures of the gizmo. It's cool.
G'luck
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09-13-2010, 08:19 AM
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