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Back Stay Adjuster - Attention Roger
Roger,
I notice while perousing your site that you have a rather nteresting looking backstay setup. My boat has twin back stays which has always made adjustment a right royal pain in the bum but your setup seems to answer this problem. Do you have any images of the setup that you could email to me or details of your setup ? Is it a proprietory brand product or did you make it up yourself ? Regards Andrew |
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Back Stay Adjuster - Attention Roger
It came with the boat and is a standard item.
I don't think of it so much as a backstay tensioner but as a backstay reliever. You can get it to the same tension with a turnbuckle but then the hull and rig are set up like that all the time. Not having that constant force and creep has got to be good. With a stiff mast like mine, there isn't much sense in fine tuning the backstay. I just horse up on it when I leave the dock and let it off when putting the boat away. -- Roger Long tdw wrote in message ... Roger, I notice while perousing your site that you have a rather nteresting looking backstay setup. My boat has twin back stays which has always made adjustment a right royal pain in the bum but your setup seems to answer this problem. Do you have any images of the setup that you could email to me or details of your setup ? Is it a proprietory brand product or did you make it up yourself ? Regards Andrew |
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Back Stay Adjuster - Attention Roger
Reliever is a better term I agree. Guess it's off to the rigging catalogues
and see what I can find. I've been tempted to modify the rig so that she runs a single stay down to about three metres off the deck , then splitting with an adjuster (reliever whatever) on one side going up to a block and back down to the other where it would be fixed. Installing a system that looks a bit like yours would be easier and less expensive. Thanks for your reply Regards Andrew ps - Maine looks pretty damn nice to me, fog or no fog. Sadly the east coast of Australia is a bit far away for a short cruise. tdw "Roger Long" wrote in message ... It came with the boat and is a standard item. I don't think of it so much as a backstay tensioner but as a backstay reliever. You can get it to the same tension with a turnbuckle but then the hull and rig are set up like that all the time. Not having that constant force and creep has got to be good. With a stiff mast like mine, there isn't much sense in fine tuning the backstay. I just horse up on it when I leave the dock and let it off when putting the boat away. -- Roger Long tdw wrote in message ... Roger, I notice while perousing your site that you have a rather nteresting looking backstay setup. My boat has twin back stays which has always made adjustment a right royal pain in the bum but your setup seems to answer this problem. Do you have any images of the setup that you could email to me or details of your setup ? Is it a proprietory brand product or did you make it up yourself ? Regards Andrew |
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Back Stay Adjuster - Attention Roger
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"Roger Long" wrote: With a stiff mast like mine, there isn't much sense in fine tuning the backstay. I just horse up on it when I leave the dock and let it off when putting the boat away. We have a tree trunk of a mast ourselves, but a tensioner is more useful than you think. In light air, ease off to make the genny fuller; tighter in weather to flatten it out. Invite a racer or sailmaker onboard one day and let him/her play with it a bit. You'll be surprised how much better the boat will go. -- Jere Lull Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD) Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
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Back Stay Adjuster - Attention Roger
Actually, I do that. On windy days, I take a big swig, a small one on
light days, and in between. I just set it for the general conditions and don't think much about it underway. What I would really like to do is pull some more of the forward draft out of my elderly main but there's no way it's going to do that. By sweating everything, I can just get the luff so it is a little soft but (usually) not backwinding. OTOH that forward draft makes the main more effective when sailing without the jib. Although I do that infrequently, it helps me rationalize not buying another one I was startled the other day to see the huge difference in windward performance between whe working jib and 130% genoa going to windward in winds near reefing force. The main is beautifully shaped after the first reef and that combination is worth half a knot to a knot over the roller sail. As soon as I ease the sheets however, the lack of the rocket like reach I'm used to is pretty disappointing. -- Roger Long |
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