Hi Rick, Glad to hear that you had such a wonderful sail. M15s are great vessels! But............... you seem to be suffering from the same problem I initially had. If you try and put the pin in the head stay, you have to get enough tension on it so that the holes line up. If you don't; ................then you sweat and strain and get nowhere. ( unless you have the 200 pound gorilla leaning on the mast to give you some slack) My mentor was a gentleman from Alaska who said, "Connie, go to your WEST catalog - and find: ' Quick Release Shroud Levers' - page 486 in my '99 copy of the catalog" These levers allow you to hook up the fore stay - with slack - and then when you tension the lever, you have a tight fore stay. It's a great improvement. Allows you to put the pin in the fore stay - no strain: no pain - and then you flip the lever and you have tension (and the lever is locked in place) Wouldn't be without it! Connie
I use one on my M17's backstay to release the tension on the forestay, which is necessary when trying to pin the forestay now that I have a CDI furler . . . I should've mentioned this when I was describing changes that had to be made to accomodate the CDI . . . ----- Original Message ----- From: chbenneck@juno.com To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 7:25 PM Subject: M-15 Mast raising Hi Rick, Glad to hear that you had such a wonderful sail. M15s are great vessels! But............... you seem to be suffering from the same problem I initially had. If you try and put the pin in the head stay, you have to get enough tension on it so that the holes line up. If you don't; ................then you sweat and strain and get nowhere. ( unless you have the 200 pound gorilla leaning on the mast to give you some slack) My mentor was a gentleman from Alaska who said, "Connie, go to your WEST catalog - and find: ' Quick Release Shroud Levers' - page 486 in my '99 copy of the catalog" These levers allow you to hook up the fore stay - with slack - and then when you tension the lever, you have a tight fore stay. It's a great improvement. Allows you to put the pin in the fore stay - no strain: no pain - and then you flip the lever and you have tension (and the lever is locked in place) Wouldn't be without it! Connie
Exactly Connie! You beat me to it. We have a quick release on the forestay also. Best thing since sliced bread :-) Rik chbenneck@juno.com wrote:
Hi Rick,
Glad to hear that you had such a wonderful sail.
M15s are great vessels!
But............... you seem to be suffering from the same problem I initially had. If you try and put the pin in the head stay, you have to get enough tension on it so that the holes line up.
If you don't; ................then you sweat and strain and get nowhere. ( unless you have the 200 pound gorilla leaning on the mast to give you some slack)
My mentor was a gentleman from Alaska who said, "Connie, go to your WEST catalog - and find: ' Quick Release Shroud Levers' - page 486 in my '99 copy of the catalog"
These levers allow you to hook up the fore stay - with slack - and then when you tension the lever, you have a tight fore stay.
It's a great improvement. Allows you to put the pin in the fore stay - no strain: no pain - and then you flip the lever and you have tension (and the lever is locked in place)
Wouldn't be without it!
Connie
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