DF800 Mast Rotation Set up

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MJF
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DF800 Mast Rotation Set up

Post by MJF »

Hi

Please can someone post a picture of the mast rotation set up. My DF800 was originally supplied with a Junk Rig and had the standard set up retro-fitted. The mast rotation set up is very poor and I can't help thinking not all the parts were ordered.

I am sailing round the UK and keep chaffing the lines, not at all good!

Regards

Matthew
axon22
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Another Guy with no idea

Post by axon22 »

I´m interested too.......

I've seen so many photos and videos, each had its own mostly clumsy solution.


good season
Greetings from Austria
Christian
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Mast foot for rotating mast

Post by Christian »

Hi, the set up is quite simple (at least on the three DF800 I have sailed)
I'm not yet in water - we still got snow! So the photos are of a dismasted boat.
Please click on any of the photos to see them enlarged!

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The mast foot has a place for the bottom end of the mast and 4 wheels for: main halyard and spinnaker halyard, downhall and first reef. (all wheels removed during winter)

Looking at the mast; it is obvious. The round end goes i the place where it fits. And the 4 lines are keept in place with the wheels.

(The blue rope is only there to keep things in place during winter.)

You may note the hole in the round part of the mast end. According to instructions from Quorning: the sprint in the mast foot may be used in that hole when you raise the mast without a crane. (I have not tried)

Or was it something else that was the question?

Christian
axon22
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Rotation

Post by axon22 »

This is a misunderstanding.


I meant the driver tree to mast.
I also believe that the Threadeoppener said.
The attached photo shows my first bad solution.
Follow this link: www.gottlieb.at/web/IMG_1165.JPG


Thank you Christian for the photos and post.


Greeting from Austria
Jürgen
Christian
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Aha, that part...

Post by Christian »

That looks like a complex way of doing it. My set up is like this:

You have the handle that is attached to the lower part of the mast. From that handle there is a rope up to the boom. The rope ends in a cleat. This rope defines how much the mast is allowed to rotate. By shortening the rope the mast rotate less and if you release the rope the mast rotates more.

The force in the sail makes the mast rotate each tack. In slow wind, you may have to rotate the mast by hand.

Please click on any of the photos to see them enlarged!

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Christian
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