New member and owner. Cal 33

[Phils cal 33]

Hello and greetings. Ive recently baught 1978 cal 33. Interested to get feed back on running lines sheat lines halyard lines and what lengths are good size to go with. Has cable halyards.. good or bad?

Thank you guys
Phil

[Adelie]

Welcome to CruisersForum!

I would suggest updating your profile with your general location and your boat make & model or “Looking” or Looking to Crew" in the "Boat" category. This info shows up under your UserName in every post in the web view. Many questions are boat and/or location dependent and having these tidbits under your UserName saves answering those questions repeatedly. If you need help setting up your profile then click on this link: https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...ml#post3308797

I would happily help more if the link above is not enough.

Go Cals, Lapworth all the way.

Regarding halyards. I'm not a fan of wire but it's not the end of the world. The truck probably has a sheeve sized for the wire. If you want to replace the wire, I would use a similar sized Dyneema to replace the wire and keep that larger Dacron tail for handling and for grinding on the winch. If the boat has a wire reel with a drum brake and no rope tail, get rid of it, there is a moderate safety risk with them.

For CRUISING;

I would put the main halyard where ever the reefing lines cleat off, if they cleat on the boom, halyard should cleat on the mast. If the reefing lines come back to the cockpit so should the halyard.

I would put the jib halyard on the mast. If the jib is roller furling you won't be handling it very often. If it is not roller furling sail changes will be short handed and you will want the halyard where you can hold it while also handing the headsail.

For RACING things are very different, among other things there are a lot more crew aboard so there are a lot of different ways the run the halyards and line.