[alberg30] lifelines & sidestays

[Alan P. Kefauver]

From: "Alan P. Kefauver" <apk2 at home.com>

Lifelines outside of the shrouds. A little contact between the lifelines and the shrouds is not a problem. I have a Cruising Design Roller furler.  I tension pretty hard by tightening the backstay, this also gives me a slight rake to the mast above the lower shrouds, which helps me point to windward. Additionally, this allows me to run the Genoa three-quarters or half open and still have a fairly good shape. I run the Genoa down to half before I begin reefing the main. I tend to set eh shrouds pretty taught. I can ususally move them in a circle of about one-half inch before hitting the wall so to speak. They are not bar hard, but there is very little slack in the leeward side shrouds on a beat with a brisk breeze (rail down with lotsa whitecaps). However, the beam in the cabin that supports the mast has been sistered with half-inch aluminum plates along its length on my boat, so I don't worry about driving the mast through the keel:)
Alan
#152 Andante

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On 7/25/1999 at 4:46 PM Tom Sutherland wrote:

>From: Tom Sutherland <tomsu at uky.campuscw.net>
>
>Dear List,
>
>    I finally got my mast raised yesterday and this in turn raised a
>question or two:
>
>     First ... do most of you run your lifelines on the outside or
>inside of the main sidestays ?  If mine are run outside of the two main
>sidestays they must bend around around the sidestays thus always being
>in contact with the sidestays ... this does appear where they have been
>at one point because of the worn spot in the lifeline covers.
>
>    Second ... about how much sag is normal for the roller furling
>extrusion ( mine is Sea Furl by Hood) before I put too much stuff on the
>backstay I thought I would get an idea from the list ... I have never
>had a furling system before.
>
>All for now ,
>
>Tom S
># 412  InCahoots
>
>PS ... She sits much better on her lines with the mast in place ... much
>better !
>
>
>
>
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