[Public-List] Standing Rigging

[Gordon Laco]

I'd agree - laying them out on something flat is much better than over  
horses then trying to make the catenary of the new wire match that of  
the old!

G



On 26-Sep-09, at 3:37 PM, Jim Davis wrote:

> Derrick wrote   "My plan is to use the existing stays as patterns  
> and cut the new ones to fit based on those. By stretching them out  
> on sawhorses I should be able to get a pretty darn good fit."
>
> Let me suggest that you stretch the wires on the pier, or other flat  
> surface.  Drive a large nail into the pier to stretch from it and  
> drive a second nail at the other end.  Then build your new wire  
> "nail to nail".  When I rerigged Isa Lei, I measured each wire in  
> place and added two feet as a safety factor.  I opted for swaged  
> fittings at the upper end and had a rigger do them.  The lower ends  
> are Norseman, which I did as I changed each wire.  For cutting, as  
> has already been suggested, tape the cut and use a Dremel.
>
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> Jim Davis
> S/V Isa Lei
> CT 35
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