Hi all,

"Altered" has always had mid boom sheeting, I carried it in from my Mosquito's and the A that "Altered" came from. By the way the first Mossie I had was sloop rigged with mid boom sheeting and was OK. Mossie has less tramp space than a F16. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

My boom is a carbon sailboard mast top section. Is smaller in diameter than most A booms and doesn't bend or break. Currently my boom hangers are Kevlar rope with the ends teased out and epoxied on. Previously I used seat belt webbing wrapped around with one rivet to stop it slipping, but the rivet still got loose, epoxied on is best.

I use a swivelling cleat RF7, initialy this was mounted on tramp alone with a Large thin aluminium plate underneath this worked OK, but after some changes I put a pole up centre of my tramp and cleat is now fixed to it. In both instances it is very important to get cleat angle right. I find I need to cleat regularly to rest arms for downwind work with spin.

Mossie Tim has sheet dropping straight from middle of boom, many skiffs do it this way. But when I sail his boat I get tangled in it. Like so many things in set ups no right or wrong just what you are used to.

I will try to take a photo this weekend.

Regards Gary. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />