[Alberg30] RE:movable staysail stay

[Gord Laco]

You're right, forgot to mention that.

Gord
----- Original Message -----
From: sousa, stephen <sousa_stephen at emc.com>
To: <public-list at alberg30.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 12:32 PM
Subject: RE: [Alberg30] RE:movable staysail stay


> Gord,
>
> I would suggest that you place a sleeve in the mast which the 5/16 bolt
ties
> into, this will stop any compression of the mast when tightening the bolt.
> This material will compress all though you think that the thickness of the
> material will handle the 5/16 bolt with washers, it will not.
>
> I just installed a bail on the boom for a vang which was sleeved and chafe
> plates installed prior to assembly.
>
> Stephen
> #114
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gord Laco [mailto:gord at transatmarine.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 8:32 AM
> To: public-list at alberg30.org
> Subject: Re: [Alberg30] RE:movable staysail stay
>
>
> Hi gang,
>
> I'm looking at doing the same thing.  My slant on the idea is to combine
the
> spin. pole topping lift with a stays'l halyard. The way I'm going to do
this
> is as follows:
>
> - attach a vang type u-shaped bail to the mast with a 5/16" through bolt
> about 2' above the spreaders.
> - hang a beefy block on it. (I want this as high as possible in order to
> have a stays'l with a usefull size and a luff as long as possible for up
> wind work.  Any higher above the top of the after lower stays and I would
> have to start thinking about running backstays& chainplates for them)
> - run 3/8" prestretched halyard line back to a rope clutch & winch on Stbd
> cabin top.
> - have a 1/4" 7x19 wire luff rope built into my high clewed staysail
> - bolt a mighty pad eye in the foredeck with another pad eye on the inside
> on top of a backing plate
> - bolt a third pad eye to a block glassed to the inside of the bow & run a
> wire pendant to it from the underside of the deck
>
> My logic is:  I want a stays'l to use in heavy weather but do not want to
> have to deal with the pain of trying to drag the genny around it every
time
> I tack in the 99% of the time I do not need the stays'l.
>
> Gord
> KC426 Surprise
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Lincoln <lincoln at cc.UManitoba.CA>
> To: <public-list at alberg30.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:33 AM
> Subject: [Alberg30] RE:movable staysail stay
>
>
> > Hi group,
> > I would be interested in this idea, especially the type
> > and style of attachment at the mast.  I was reading
> > Practical Sailor last night and it had a good article
> > on movable stays, with pictures of different types of
> > deck attachments.  From what I have been noticing the
> > attachment point on the mast is usually made near
> > spreaders, like on the 7/8 Triton.  I wonder if the A30
> > mast would support a similar attachment point above the
> > spreaders.
> > Bob Lincoln
> > Indigo #590
> >
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