Gerry: The eye straps on the port side are for the the dead ends of the main's tack reef lines. The clamcleats on starboard are for where you lock down the reef. Use the aluminum CL211s not those plastic jobs! (The eye straps can also be used for dead ending a cunningham.) Make sure the eye straps and clam cleats are low enough that when you put in the reef the tack is pulled down tight to the gooseneck. The reef lines are 1/4". Tie to the strapeye and run up to the reef tack grommet and down to the clamcleat. Run the jib halyard to the cockpit. Good location for adjusting luff tension. Leave the main halyard at the mast. On the starboard side run the cunningham to the cockpit. Many ways to set up a topping lift. One is going from the boom end up to a block near the starboard head of the mast, down to blocks leading aft. :: Dave Scobie :: M6'8" #650 :: SV SWALLOW - sv-swallow.com :: former owner M17 #375 SWEET PEA - m17-375.com :: former owner M15 #288 SCRED - www.freewebs.com/m15-named-scred/ On Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 3:43 AM Gerry Lempicki via montgomery_boats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
Looking at the original mast, someone mounted strap eyes on the port side and jam cleats on the starboard side. Any idea what these might have been used for? I have not mounted any on the new mast yet. There are permanently mounted blocks on the deck to redirect the halyards to the cabin top near the companionway.
-Gerry