sail cut ,pocket rocket

Thanks Phil,Tellowie beach,in between Pirie and Port Germaine,fairly high tides at the moment so the beach isn't drying off like it does in the summer.

when you rig the sheeting you can pretension the down haul before you tie it to the final sheetrope pulley/ rachet. I wouldnt use a rachet or more pulleys at the rear. you would need to let out too fast for a more complicated sheeting

thanks paul ,mine is same as top pic except i have used a double pulley rear boom,are 2 singles better?what is 'ratchet'?a self locking pulley?where do you get them?whitworths?.....edit;that takes care of tomorrow morning [while the tides going out and the wind is building ]new mast base it is

In the "good old days" the sheeting arrangement you had at the back was the standard, then a refinement at the front was to have the block(pulley) on the front tied onto the end of a downhaul.
I hope this explains in words!
So, up and down at the back, along the boom to the final mainsheet block which floated.
Downhaul was a set of pulleys fron the tack of the sail down to the frame with the tail at the top which then came along to the floating block.
When you pull the mainsheet harder, the downhaul automatically pulls down too.
It takes a bit of setting up, but when you get it right, it works a treat. To get some pre-tension on the luff you simply have a stopper knot just out of the final downhaul block.
Make sense? Like Pauls "racing sheet" except that a bit more power on the downhaul set.

The big thing to watch out for in Pirrads micromini, is that he will need to let out REAL quick , so a simple set up , but with some down haul is neccesary
its about time you added this one to the landyacht register , pirrad definitely a diploma job

I've asked Laurie to unlock it, watch this space.