Hi, my husband and I recently acquired a Solcat 18 trailer catamaran. We are just hobbyists and are not into racing, just looking for a few hours to get away from it all.
Because the boat is over 30years old, we have had a lot of trouble finding info on the rigging etc. Though it came rigged with just a few parts needing repair/replacement, we soon found out that the guy we bought it from must not have ever sailed it or figuered out how to put it all together.
The blocks from the boom to the aft traveller are different to the ones in the original set up and we are not sure if we have it set up right. In the original, it had twin (side-by-side) pulleys going up to two individual pulleys. We have a block set that has two vertical pulleys with one having a rope lock at the bottom.
We are not sure if we then feed this straight into the traveler block that is mounted or if we are supposed to integrate another rope in there somehow. I'm not even sure if I'm making sense, I'm trying to use sailing lingo from another lifetime and by now you may be picturing the rope coiling around the mast three times and around my husbands head five times (often I'd like to set it that way) . So if anyone thinks they can make sense of my jibberish and help me out, it would be much appreciated.
Batchook.