I found that a back stay tensioner arrangement lets me put a little slop in the backstay of the mast rigging when I raise and lower the mast. Once it is up I just pull on the line and the four part tackle tightens the rig for sailing. Nice n easy Japanezee. Also lets me play around with yet more lines and tackles. When I was a boy of 13 I chanced to be standing on the deck of the Charles W. Morgan at Mystic Seaport, Mystic Connecticut. The last actual whaler was then fully rigged and as I stood by a taffrail festooned with three strand hemp lines wrapped just so around the belaying pins I grabbed one of the lines and tugged on it. Waaay up the mizzenmast a yard arm swung to and fro as I pulled on that line. Something about the connection between that line in my hand and that motion high above surprised me and the sense of it as stuck ever since. It was one of those "Kodak Moments" without the camera. "...and the seas beckon and would reclaim the saltwater in our veins when it can.." Fair winds Tom B <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=oa-2115-v2-b> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=oa-2115-v2-b> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Jazzy <jazzydaze@gmail.com> wrote:
Since I'm not racing, I've got everything on the not sloppy loose but not tight side. . Makes life easier. Mast goes up easy and nothing flops around. 12 loosen turns on the rear stay to put up the mast, then 12 tighten seems to work great. Science!
Jazzy On Mar 28, 2016 7:07 PM, "Thomas Buzzi" <thomaspbuzzi@gmail.com> wrote:
That works, I did that on my mast also. You can get some twist shackles to put on your shrouds where they attach to the chain plates to add a couple of inch to the length. I ran a 1/4-20 bolt through each stock shackle to take up the slack. That prevented the "T" part from twisting when the shroud was slacked off. If that twist does not free itself when raising the mast again, you can get a bend in the "t" end of the shackle. The bolt keeps the "T" tucked into where it belongs.The length of the 1/4-20 bolt was just enough to reach through the strap holding the shackle (about 1") as well as long enough to accept a self locking 1/4 " nut. the nuts have to go away from the centerline between the two shrouds so they will not bind anything. You shouldn't have to loosen the shrouds to raise the mast after your round the aft edge of the mast like Gary suggested.
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 1:20 PM, GARY M HYDE <gmhyde1@mac.com> wrote:
David: Round the foot of the mast so you can step it without loosening the shrouds. Strike a curve using the bolt hole a s a center and trim the aft part of th mast foot.
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On Mar 28, 2016, at 7:55 AM, David Rifkind <drifkind@acm.org> wrote:
On Mar 28, 2016, at 8:55 AM, David Rifkind <drifkind@acm.org> 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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