I placed an order for new standing rigging parts yesterday. I will be fabricating 5 pieces of wire, forestay, uppers and lowers sidestays. If there is interest here, I will keep a photo record and post same. My boat, a 26d, is fractionally rigged, but the techniques will apply to masthead sailboats as well.
I will be using turnbuckles at the base of the upper sidestays which have toggles and will be nicopressed. I have a set of micro-adjusting turnbuckles I will install on the lowers, they will be machine swaged. The forestay will include a cam-over Johnson lever with turnbuckle below at the stem fitting.
I replaced my standing rigging about 8 years ago when I bought my boat. Basically the new rigging was a duplicate of the previous rig, and as I learned more about fractional rigging, I realized that the upper sidestay lengths were too long, as the funky stock adjuster was fully retracted and proper sidestay tension was not attainable. I'll get it right this time.
I miss sailing my boat. I have been crewing in races on a Corsair trimaran, but it is not as satisfying as controlling my own sailboat. My departure into Dyneema standing rigging did not pan out for me for various reasons, and so I am starting over with SS wire.
I will be using turnbuckles at the base of the upper sidestays which have toggles and will be nicopressed. I have a set of micro-adjusting turnbuckles I will install on the lowers, they will be machine swaged. The forestay will include a cam-over Johnson lever with turnbuckle below at the stem fitting.
I replaced my standing rigging about 8 years ago when I bought my boat. Basically the new rigging was a duplicate of the previous rig, and as I learned more about fractional rigging, I realized that the upper sidestay lengths were too long, as the funky stock adjuster was fully retracted and proper sidestay tension was not attainable. I'll get it right this time.
I miss sailing my boat. I have been crewing in races on a Corsair trimaran, but it is not as satisfying as controlling my own sailboat. My departure into Dyneema standing rigging did not pan out for me for various reasons, and so I am starting over with SS wire.