I'd caution against over-tensioning. I've been tensioning the past 3 or 4 seasons to about 12 on the Loos scale and the compression post has pushed into the fiberglass of the overhead. Before that for years I used the "snug but not tight" rule and had no difficulties. Rick M17 #633 Lynne L On Monday, March 28, 2016, David Rifkind <drifkind@acm.org> wrote:
On Mar 28, 2016, at 8:55 AM, David Rifkind <drifkind@acm.org <javascript:;>> wrote:
Any guidance on tensioning shrouds? Mine were set at “that feels about right”. It took me a while to realize, when raising the mast, the shrouds are at maximum tension a few degrees from “up”, when the mast base hasn’t quite dropped down flat, and because of the funny angle, the pull was actually bending the bottom T bolts on the uppers.
My shrouds I think are too short, and adjusted all the way out I can just barely get the mast up without overtensioning them.
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