Winning skipper Terry Hutchinson, an Annapolis sailor who was mainsheet trimmer for Cayard's AmericaOne campaign in Auckland, praised Speck the excellent showing.
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The mainsheet has a maximum of a 6 : 1 purchase and has a traveller that allows movement over the entire aft crossmember of the frame.
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Pajot gave up the helm to work as mainsheet trimmer, reserve skipper Francois Brenac took over as the driver and the new tactician was Thierry Peponnet.
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The motivation for such a change being that most other dinghies, including the ones Topper sailors are likely to advance to, are rigged with centre mainsheets.
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The mainsheet pulls the boom ( and therefore the foot of the sail ) primarily inwards at lower points of sail and downwards at higher points of sail.
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Provision must be made to allow the mainsail to wrap around the boom without interfering with the mainsheet, such as end-boom sheeting or a bridle.
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Also Thursday, Team New Zealand announced that mainsheet hand Warwick Fleury was rushed to Sharp Cabrillo Hospital with accute appendicitis following Wednesday's close win over oneAustralia.
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Purdy, who was Mighty Mary's mainsheet trimmer, will skipper her own boat, as will Courtenay Becker Dey, who was Mighty Mary's navigator.
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A singlehanded option was envisaged, with a forward mast step position, a second, forward set of chainplates, and corresponding set of anchor points for the mainsheet bridle.
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"Dave does a lovely job of playing possum, " says one-time teammate Andreas Josenhans, now the mainsheet trimmer on PACT'95's Young America.
