Duane, your post seems to confirm my choice of a "double sheet" or "triangle sheet" arrangement ... even over the traveler arrangement in the 26M.Duane Dunn, Allegro wrote:Every dodger I've ever seen on any boat, including the narrow ones for an X always extend as far forward as the boats companionway hatch. They never stop short allowing there to be a opening in the deck in front of the dodger when the companionway hatch is in the full open location.
Even in those pictures the boom mounting point is so far forward that you risk folding the boom in half in high winds. A Mac boom is a pretty light weight structure and the main can put quite a load on it along the aft half.
José, had you considered that? It certainly is cheaper than the Harken traveler track, and the stock mainsheet-bail is further out on the boom than your traveler would be. I have been single-handing with it, no crew or passengers, but still it doesn't appear to be much "in the way"; of course, eu no sabe si a sua Almirante le gostara ... (Pardon my Portuñol! I learned my little bit of Portuguese in the old colonies - like my native "English"!)
