Hulukupu wrote:Welcome, avninal,
It looks like a fun project. Those French-built boats really do look different (sort of a cross between a West Coast Triton, with the fiberglass molded coaming boards, and a Peugeot). I'm curious about the lack of sheet winches on your coamings. Is that just temporary, or are those winches mounted on the cabin meant to sheet in the jib?
Thank you very much Hulukupu, it sure is and has been a very fun project on a very neglected boat. The more I delve into it the more I wonder who with a sane mind would undertake this kind of a task.
At the time of the purchase there was a newly but stuck engine, a roller furling, a depth sounder, a speed & distance log and a pair of Goiot winches that you mentioned.
And your your question is spot on. After half a year of occasional but vigourous cleaning, and another half a year of trying to make her seaworthy again, last month we've made sea trials for the engine twice and once for the jib with the existant winches for the first time. Obviously the jib lines got jammed.
Now I can't decide whether to mount new winches on the coamings or try to solve this by adding blocks to either side of the deck near the relevant stanchion bases (approximately aligning with a point that falls between the portlights) thus bringing the jib lines down to the deck from outside the shrouds and up again to the existing winches. And maybe glueing a piece of protective stainless steel pad with a L shaped cross section for the points where the lines will make contact with the cabin top next to the winches as well.
http://marinestore.co.uk/YWTYPEB.html
http://marinestore.co.uk/PBPS-1910.html
Your ideas are very much appreciated and thanking you in advance.