Fine tuning your rig
 

OzOne wrote:

On 24 Jun 2006 09:24:34 -0700, "Joe"
scribbled thusly:



I'm pulling the mast and replacing the standing rigging, after Im
re-rigged, I'll shot a few pictures

Before you pull it out, haul a tape measure up the jib halyard and
measure the rake exactly from say the stem.

Make the new stays just a freckle shorter than the old ones so when
they settle in, they come up the same length.
That way, you get to set the rake the same without too much fiddling
about.
Check it with the tape and adjust from there.


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

Fine tuning your rig
 

I'm pulling the mast and replacing the standing rigging, after Im
re-rigged, I'll shot a few pictures

OzOne wrote:
Before you pull it out, haul a tape measure up the jib halyard and
measure the rake exactly from say the stem.


Another good way to measure rake is from the center of the
transom, using the main halyard. I like this way with small
boats, because many boats also have an adjustment for the
mast step & partners, you can also measure these from the
top center of the transom too.

Top sailors in one design classes keel a tuning book of
these kinds of measurements so that they can set their boat
up the exact same way, even after major work (or getting a
new boat).



Make the new stays just a freckle shorter than the old ones so when
they settle in, they come up the same length.
That way, you get to set the rake the same without too much fiddling
about.

I dunno if Joe's boat is going to have enough rig tension to
even get that first 10% stretch on the wire.

Laying the boat on it's side to ake pictures of how the
sails will set is a great idea. It also lets you check out
how things are working up aloft when under tension. I've
occasionally thought it would be nice to be able to do this
with bigger boats too!

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

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"Joe" wrote in message
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Donal wrote:
"Joe" wrote in message
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Donal wrote:
"Joe" wrote in message
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OK..Hoping for a bit of expert advice.
A few questions:

1. Will you point higher if you move your Jib forward by installing
a
bowspirt?

2. Can you point higher if you un-rake your mast a bit?

No, but you would probably point higher if you un-stepped your mast.

On a power boat, such as yours, the sails impede your progress to
wind.


Any tuning suggestion to get your boat to point higher?


Get a proper sail boat!!!



Regards


Donal
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For this boat Donal
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...3212926DdkPsY#


Not this one
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...63212926XhvvaU
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Dead right, Joe!!

One of those boats need wind, and one of them doesn't! I know which one
that I would prefer to sail!

I know which one you could handle somewhat safely



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Did you do like the other Bent-a-toe sailor and buy a quality Kia
too?

You are beginning to sound like Bobsprit!

Bobspirt is buying like you....Birds of a feather


Can't you come up with your own
insults?

Cant you get thoses floor boards to stay down?


Bennie's...the Kia of Sailboats

I can adjust the rake of my mast. Tell us again where your backstays
are
attached to your mast!!!

http://community.webshots.com/photo/...63212926LEPjVZ

You can see them all yourself for the main mast...need a mizzen shot?

Ahem cough suppressed splutter
Your backstay seems to be attached to the middle of your mast.
As I said earlier, If you want to point higher, you need to get a boat that
was designed to *sail*.

Hint The backstay should attach to the mast *above* the genoa halyard.


Regards


Donal
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Fine tuning your rig
 

BTW RedCloud will out sail your french bleach bottle and my floorboards

are solid as steel....in anything but light air.


And light air is anything below 35 knots!!! Joe's boat is incapable of
staying with a Catalina 38, let alone any first series boat. If he
truly believes a motorsailor is a match for a racer/cruiser, it only
defines his ignorance all the better.

Bwahahahhahahahahaha!


RB
35s5
NY

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OzOne wrote in message ...

Donal,
Your high consumption of methylated spirits appears to have effected
your eyesight..as could be expected

Your command of the English language demonstrates that the Australian police
do not require a high standard of education from their recruits.


How on earth could alcohol *e*ffect my eyesight?


Regards


Donal
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OzOne wrote in message ...
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:52:28 +0100, "Donal"
scribbled thusly:


OzOne wrote in message
...

Donal,
Your high consumption of methylated spirits appears to have effected
your eyesight..as could be expected

Your command of the English language demonstrates that the Australian
police
do not require a high standard of education from their recruits.


How on earth could alcohol *e*ffect my eyesight?


Oh dear, poor Donal reduced to the role of grammar police.

Please accept my apologies, Ozzie. I had assumed that you had been educated
to a reasonable standard, even though you were a copper. I thought that you
must have been drunk to make such a stupid mistake.

I wouldn't ever criticise an uneducated person's grammer.



It could and does have an effect on eyesight.....but apparently is
incapable of mellowing you.

I don't need "mellowing". I am so laid back that my wife calls me lazy!!!



regards


Donal
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Donal wrote:
OzOne wrote in message ...
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:52:28 +0100, "Donal"
scribbled thusly:


OzOne wrote in message
...

Donal,
Your high consumption of methylated spirits appears to have effected
your eyesight..as could be expected

Your command of the English language demonstrates that the Australian
police
do not require a high standard of education from their recruits.


How on earth could alcohol *e*ffect my eyesight?


Oh dear, poor Donal reduced to the role of grammar police.

Please accept my apologies, Ozzie. I had assumed that you had been educated
to a reasonable standard, even though you were a copper. I thought that you
must have been drunk to make such a stupid mistake.

I wouldn't ever criticise an uneducated person's grammer.

Or spelling.........

PDW

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OzOne wrote in message ...
On 2 Jul 2006 17:01:03 -0700, "Peter"
scribbled thusly:


I wouldn't ever criticise an uneducated person's grammer.

Or spelling.........

PDW

Ba BOOOM!


Spelling? Go on, tell me about my spelling mistake .... and I will
demonstrate that you are an ignorant pair of yokels.


Regards

Donal
--

Fine tuning your rig
 

OzOne wrote:

Donal

Tell me all about "grammer" Donal....

An Ozark term for a female grandparent?

Cheers
Marty
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Donal wrote:
OzOne wrote in message ...
On 2 Jul 2006 17:01:03 -0700, "Peter"
scribbled thusly:


I wouldn't ever criticise an uneducated person's grammer.

Or spelling.........

PDW

Ba BOOOM!


Spelling? Go on, tell me about my spelling mistake .... and I will
demonstrate that you are an ignorant pair of yokels.

Too late. I already know I'm an ignorant yokel. However, I'd much
rather be ignorant than stupid. Ignorance is curable.

PDW