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5: The self-tacking balanced-club jib (new ideas added at the bottom) The BayRaider balanced club jib is wonderful. It just looks after itself. The problem on a BayCruiser is how do you set the clew of the jib to the heel of the club without having to go forward over the cabin to get to it? If the wind blows up and you want to dowse the sail, you don't really want to have to clamber over the cabin and leave the helm. A possibility is to lead the setting and furling lines to turning blocks at the swivel point of the club, and then back to cleats on the cabin top. It would have to be tried on a mock-up to see if the club could still swing easily, if there was too much friction in the blocks and if you could really pull up the club tightly and securely enough. Experimentation will be the order of the day. This is a sketch of how it might work, with a photo of the simple arrangement possible on the open BayRaider, where you can just reach forward to the heel of the club. |
 The self tacking balanced club jib on the Bayraider |
 Possible use of lines and turning blocks to take jib control lines back to to the cockpit on a BayCruiser Mid October, 2008, further thoughts I have been thinking further on arrangements here and I still think this could be made to work, especially if simplified. The arrangement above has too many things screwed on the sides of things. It all ideally needs to be in a straight line. The picture below gives an idea of a much simpler arrangement. Here, if the jib outhaul line is pulled tight, the fixed line holding the jib's club to the deck could actually go slack, and the club pivot around the outhaul line
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