File - Canadian Wayfarer Association

Installation
The distance between the cheek block and the cleat is limited! To get the correct length of
bridle, raise your main ashore on a calm day and centre the boom without vang or excessive
downward pull on the boom. Feed the 4,5 meter (15’) of bridle rope through your mainsheet
transom block and tie in by doubling the line and tying the block with an overhand knot (i.e. half a
reef knot!) such that one side of the line is about 45 cm (18”) longer than the other (see figure
below).
Your two mainsheet blocks should almost meet when the seizing hits the cheek block, i.e. when
the bridle is at its loosest position. The bridle should be stretched almost flat along the transom
when you have pulled the seizing around the two ends as close as possible to the cam cleat.
Note: This is not a system that is easily adjusted while there is any pressure on the mainsheet.
We have at least once had the bridle rope accidentally become uncleated while going upwind and
had to wait for the run to reset it!
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