C26 Boom Vang Line Length?

[DParker]

Hoping someone can help me.

My boom vang line wore out and I removed it to buy new line but foolishly 'lost' the old line. Don't know what I did with it. I have the hardware, but no line to measure.

Anybody able to tell me how long a line to purchase? Anybody mind measuring theirs for me?

Thanks!

[J. Austin]

Man, great question. Looking forward to hearing the answer. I have no boom vang.

[EmergencyExit]

I'll look and see if I have it anywhere, I know I logged in somewhere the first time we rigged EE. As I remember, it was a surprisingly long length, I "think" on the order of 35'.

If the vang is 3' long and you make 4 loops that would be 24' right there (3x(4x2)) and then add running some line to the cockpit, and that's about 30' anyway.

[lecker68]

Two ways of doing it measure bail to bail and X5.The simple way for us old folks is to take any line or string set it up and measure length be sure to leave enough that if you are on a downwind run you can let the sail belly also what I also use mine for if I am wing and wing I use the whisker pole on the head sail and use the vang to the toe rail on opposite side to avoid an accidental Jybe only in lighter air.

[Windwalker]

Just got mine out to measure, boy do these things get tangled when in storage. Must be the line gnomes

50' of 1/4 inch line, two triple blocks (mine are Harkin) the bottom with a cam cleat, the top with a solid 4" ring on a 90 degree shackle (so the ring is in line with the block to keep it from twisting).

[DParker]

Thanks for measuring. I really appreciate all the help.

Unless I'm more math challenged than I thought , I don't think my blocks are 'triple' blocks. I'll try to describe them:

The top block has a becket and a single block. The bottom unit is a double block (a small block below a larger block) and a cam cleat. I think it's called a 'fiddle block'. There are no 'side by side' blocks top or bottom. Is this a 'triple' or a 'double' set up?

[EmergencyExit]

So (if I understand right), you'll
tie the line on the becket at the top,
go down to and around one side of the double block at the bottom,
then back to and thru the single block at the top,
then back to and thru the double at the bottom and into the cleat.

I'd measure the distance between them in place and multiply the number of loops as lecker68 said, I suppose

[Windwalker]

Your arrangement gives a 3:1 purchase, 1 lbs. on the sheet gives 3 lbs. on the boom, not enough in my opinion.

My vang, described above, gives a 6:1 purchase, and I've need all of it on occasion.