Baby stay and back stay. You can set it us with a
certain amount of pre-bend as well.
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Steve
S/V Pony Express

"Bart Senior" bartsenior
wrote in message
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: I always thought the J-30 was an ugly boat.
:
: How do you bend the mast on the Express 30? Is
there a baby stay?
:
: Bart Senior
:
: On 26 Oct 2003 04:08:12 GMT,
(SAIL LOCO) wrote:
:
: Now lets look at a raceboat that worked
and had more than 600
: built...the J30.
: 1) Fast, fast, fast and fun to sail.
: 2) A real racer with a tiller.
: 3) a simply great cabin.
: 4) Deck and cockpit designed for racers
: 5) Plenty of other J30's to race against! There
are 5 on City Island alone!
: 6) Racer oriented fractional rig.
:
: Now if the Boobster knew anything about boats
he would have posted.
: 1. The J30 is slower than an Express 30.
Painfully slow upwind in light air
: which is why class rules allow a 163% genoa.
Owners bitched and had the rules
: changed. They know how slow the boat is.
Boob**** thanks anything made by J
: is fast. Knowledgeable people know that the
only thing a J beats is another J.
: Same thing as a Hobie Cat.
: 2. A tiller that requires the use of steriods
in a breeze because of the
: unbalanced rudder. The boat drives like a bus.
: 3. Great cabin? Try to avoid the stream of
water from the chainplates while
: replacing the port bulkhead that has been a
failure on every J30. Try to take
: a leak using the head. Try to set the prop.
: 4. Deck and cockpit designed for racers.
: 5. Plenty of other J30s to race against in some
areas.
: 6. Racer oriented fractional rig that on every
J30 has broken at the spreaders
: unless modified. (I'll take a masthead any day
and with a big chute run all
: the fractionals down on the downwind leg.)
: 7. Have fun replacing the bulkhead under the
cockpit floor that fails on every
: J30.
: 8. Have fun replacing the core in the transom
all around the exhaust outlet
: that fails on every J30.
: S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
: Trains are a winter sport
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