# Skerry Sloop Help

**URL:** <https://forum.clcboats.com/t/skerry-sloop-help/46280>\
**Category:** Builder's Forum\
**Created:** [June 8, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/skerry-sloop-help/46280 "2018-06-08T08:23:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_Taylor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Paul\_Taylor](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Paul_Taylor)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/skerry-sloop-help/46280/1 "2018-06-08T08:23:16Z")

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Can someone who has a gunter sloop rigged skerry clear up a little confusion for me?

How should the eyestraps the shrouds clip to be oriented?&nbsp; It looks like they are vertical on the passagemaker's frame, but to orient them that way inside the gunwale leaves a screw penetrating only the hull plywood.&nbsp; Is a reinforcement inside the hull the way to go?

What did you use for attachment of the forestay & jib at the stem?&nbsp; There does not seem to be a piece of hardware left in the kit for this location.

Paul

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**Author:** ![Ruud\_Rietveld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@Ruud\_Rietveld](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Ruud_Rietveld)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/skerry-sloop-help/46280/2 "2018-06-08T10:39:39Z")

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Did you get these two?

![](http://i67.tinypic.com/nv1n50.jpg)

![skerry sloop](http://i67.tinypic.com/i2vqxh.jpg)

Maststep

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**Author:** ![Ruud\_Rietveld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@Ruud\_Rietveld](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Ruud_Rietveld)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/skerry-sloop-help/46280/3 "2018-06-08T10:59:50Z")

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Eyestraps on innerside gunwales (or on top) .&nbsp; On my skerry the forstay clips tot an eye on th breathook. Same eye as mooring and trailer rope.

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Taylor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Paul\_Taylor](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Paul_Taylor)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/skerry-sloop-help/46280/4 "2018-06-12T19:55:14Z")

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&nbsp; &nbsp;Thanks for the help.&nbsp; Yes, I have the drawings, I am just not sure which is the best way to mount the eyestraps..

I have another question: what did you do for a mainsheet bridle, or did you rig the mainsheet mid-boom like in the picture on the skerry page (the way the sprit rig is sheeted)?

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**Author:** ![Ruud\_Rietveld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@Ruud\_Rietveld](https://forum.clcboats.com/u/Ruud_Rietveld)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.clcboats.com/t/skerry-sloop-help/46280/5 "2018-06-13T04:41:21Z")

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I made the mainsheetbridle at the center of the boom according to the manual. But instead of drilling holes in the seat, I screwed a metal strip with an eye on the underside of the seat. At that eye I clip a ratchet mainsheet block.