1980 O'Day 23--Backstay

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Sep 18, 2006
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- - Lake Champlain, VT
Hey everyone I'm having a middle-aged moment (just turned 40) rigging my boat. On an O'Day 23, how long is the piece of cable that connects the aft chainplate to the bottom of the triangle (the top of the triangle connects to the back stay turnbuckel, the third hole attaches to the main sheet)? Thanks, Stickman
 

Kelly

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Feb 27, 2006
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Oday 22 Michigan
12"

For what it's worth I have a similar backstay assembly on my 22. The section you describe is about 12 inches or so.
 
Sep 18, 2006
11
- - Lake Champlain, VT
Thanks, Gang!

I was convinced that I lost the proper cable because this one seemed "too long." The truth of the matter is that the forestay needs some adjustment (I think something let loose on the forestay turnbuckle inside the furler). Thanks, again for your help! Stickman
 
Mar 19, 2007
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Hunter 23 O'Day Fredericton NB
Oh Ho!...I learn sumthin everyday

I have an ODay 23 that came to me unrigged and so, being a natcherly sorta cunphused dryland sailor, I was wobbling around in a bit of doubt about that dangly triangle thingy in the rigging pile that I got in a box with the boat. So thanks gang (twice). Now I know what its for! Oh Ho! Me an Mortimer Snerd can go sailing....eventually...and Oh Yah..I have lurnt about doing a bottom job underneath a trailer in my bug-ridden back yard...wow, six days of elbow grease, sandpaper and three kinds of gooey paint stuff...backachey!..But oh my!..What beats the satisfaction of messing around in boats, Huh?
 
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