vang (was Re: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Le Menagerie:SPI Texas-After shakedown)

[Mary Lou Troy]

Bob,
I'd like to see pictures. Did the mast fitting come with your boat? Any idea where to find one?

Mary Lou

> 
> From: "Bob Weber" <ruba1811 at hotmail.com>
> Date: 2004/06/22 Tue PM 12:43:33 EDT
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Le Menagerie:SPI Texas-After shakedown
> 
> Jim, I have a vang and recommend one to anyone who wants to have good sail 
> shape.  The arrangement is simple.  First there is a pad eye on the 
> underside of the boom.  The mast fitting slides down the groove in the mast 
> with a stopper slid in on top of it.  Both of these fittings are on top of 
> the poptop slider.  Therefore the poptop must be down to use the vang.  You 
> attach a 4:1 purchase to the pad eye on the boom and the sliding shackle on 
> the mast and tighten down the stopper to keep it from sliding up toward the 
> gooseneck.  I have never seen the "shackle" which slides into the mast 
> groove before this boat so my discription might not sound clear.  I will 
> provide pictures if you need.  Bob Weber
> 
> 
> >From: Steve <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Le Menagerie:SPI Texas-After shakedown
> >Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:21:27 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Jim
> >If I remember right, Mary Lou has a vang.  I think see
> >posted some pics a while back.
> >Steve
> >
> >
> >--- Jim White <jdwhite at panam.edu> wrote:
> > > Hi ya'll
> > > Haven't had a chance to post since putting Le
> > > Menagerie in the water. We
> > > had to replace some of the standing rigging, and
> > > make some small changes,
> > > but finally got through the shakedown about two
> > > weeks ago. WHAT A BOAT! The
> > > R-22 is about the friendliest boat I've ever
> > > handled!!! Even with our old
> > > blown out sails, it still points decently high, and
> > > downwind with the big
> > > genny is tons of fun.
> > >
> > > Fathers day, I took it out into the open Gulf
> > > (Winds: 12 g 20 / seas-2,3')
> > > and had a blast. It was a maze of shallow water, and
> > > other boats (both sail
> > > and power, some large), to get out of the bay, not
> > > to mention beating the
> > > whole way, but she never missed a tack. The Gulf was
> > > blue and fresh, and we
> > > trolled for kingfish for awhile, before heading in
> > > on the run,
> > > wing-on-wing, and then a long reach to Port Isabel.
> > > Motored into our harbor
> > > (the entrance is a nightmare at low tide, it's only
> > > about 75' wide, and so
> > > shallow that even we have to stay to the far port
> > > side to enter....channel
> > > is silted in). BTW the 9.9, 4-stroke Honda is sweet,
> > > more than enough for
> > > the boat....
> > >
> > > We're locked into the summer pattern here, light
> > > winds and small seas
> > > (barring a hurricane "event").  Hoping to sail up to
> > > Corpus Christi in July
> > > (about 120 miles up the coast). Right now I'm
> > > thinking of adding a vang? Is
> > > there something in the archives about that, or has
> > > anyone else added one
> > > (I'm sure you probably have!)...hope I'm not listing
> > > redundantly!
> > >
> > > Thanks for all of your help and guidance with this
> > > great boat....
> > >
> > > Jim White
> > >
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