[Rhodes22-list] Standing rigging thickness

Rick sloopblueheron at gmail.com
Sun Feb 16 19:21:06 EST 2014


John,

You mention bending your mast.  Most of us are talking about tuning the rig
of the IMF mast that doesn't bend.  Helm pressure is more a factor of
relative furling and sheet tension of the jib and main.

Do you have an IMF mast?

Rick


On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:46 AM, John Shulick <jsbudda at verizon.net> wrote:

> Gentlemen,
>
>   When I tighten the turnbuckles on my boat I hold the top of the
> turnbuckle
> with a pair of pliers to keep the wire from twisting and then tighten by
> hand. Rick I can get the main side stays up to 300lbs. but my hands are
> about at their limit to do that. I prefer 10% of tension over 15% and I
> rake
> my mast back about 1* or so to improve the amount of weather helm. I have
> also experimented with using the baby stays to give the mast a slight bend
> to change mainsail shape. James a heaver wire doesn't mean the tension must
> be increased 200 lbs of force is plenty what the heaver wire dose is to
> provide more resistance to shock loads from gusts and extreme conditions.
> My
> boat came with the cabin a little bent on the port side which is where
> there
> is no support in the stock design. I have improved over this by splitting
> the bulkhead in two.
> I have a port and starboard shoulder and have a leaf spring which acts as a
> compression arch (see pict).
> <http://rhodes-22.1065344.n5.nabble.com/file/n47493/DSCF0298.jpg>
> This has corrected my cabin deformation issues to a large degree. I'm
> redoing this setup this year since wood ants got into it 2 yrs ago and ate
> the bulkhead. I will be moving it forward 2" to put the arch directly under
> the mast for better support. I'm also removing about half of the original
> concrete ballast and will be replacing it with lead ingots epoxied to the
> hull and glassed over. That should keep me busy till all this damn snow
> melts.
>
> Pictures when the projects complete
> Best to all
> John S
>
>
>
>
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