[Public-List] Solent stay

[Gordon Laco]

Hello Marcelo, 

Rigging up a Solent stay that is removable is not difficult.  One achieves good tension by use of a highfield lever arrangement which involves a fitting much like the pelican hook used to close lifeline gates, but much stronger of course.

The hard part is rigging up a deck pade eye to receive the lower end of the stay… but that in solved by glassing in a knee to the underside of the deck, or perhaps a short wire carrying the deck load to the stem as is done with Folkboats.  Actually I’d recommend that way.

Perhaps better than a Solent stay would be arranging a wire luff in your heavy weather headsail, and it’s own block up below the masthead.  When hoisted, perhaps stowed on something like the Wyckham-Martin furling gear, it would be easily deployed.   You’d set it up hard with a sufficiently strong halyard winch.

For daily coastal sailing the halyard would be stowed against the mast, and the sail coiled up and stowed below.   That would work like a Solent stay, but would be in place only on passages where you might need it.

Gordon Laco
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> On Mar 7, 2021, at 8:37 PM, Marcelo Gentinetta via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
> Good afternoon,
> I have been researching how to add a Solent stay to 441 for extra piece of mind when it really blows. I am reluctant to use my 140 furled down to avoid stretching it. I am curious how others have done this on our boats. I am thinking that it should be detachable so as to avoid having to furl the Genoa every time we tack. I am curious how far aft from the present forestay it should be and how far down from the masthead it should attach so as not to require a baby stay. 
> I appreciate the input,
> Marcelo
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