Hi.
Lifted Breakaway in a week ago and went for first sail yesterday having
tightened up the rigging, put sails back on etc.
I noticed that the riggers (aided by me) had not brought the foot of
the forestay far enough down the chainplates (two parallel plates
permanently attached to the furling drum) so the strop at foot of the
headsail is not tensioned properly and the angle of the pull from the
jib halyard is nearly parallel to the forestay at the furler - causing
the halyard to wrap around the exposed forestay above the furler.
No big deal - I temporarily lashed the U shackle to which the jib
halyard is tied in a "down" position - giving a non-parallel pul and
solving the halyard wrap problem - but not the under-tensioning at the
foot of the sail.
Obviously I need to temporarily slacken off the backstay & the aft and
centre shrouds and bring the eye at the foot of the forestay
"down"/"forward" one or two bolt-holes.
The only difficulty is in getting a purchase on the eye at foot of
forestay to "pull it down".
The problem being that a clevis pin is used to secure it between the 2
chain plates so I can't simply tie a line to it and run the line through
the bow roller to a winch.
Maybe use the jib halyard to temporarily rake the mast slightly forward
and so take tension off the forestay - disconnect chainplates from
foredeck fitting, move forestay eye "down" the chainplates and use
winch etc to pull foot of chainplates back into position for securing
to foredeck fitting.
I'm sure I'll manage something but haven't had to do this for years so
if anyone has any tips I'd be grateful.
John V1447 Breakaway
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John A. Kinsella Ph: +353-61-202148 (Direct)
+353-61-333644 x 2148 (Switch)
Mathematics Dept. e-mail: John.Kinsella@...
University of Limerick FAX: +353-61-334927
IRELAND Web: John Kinsella's Website
Lifted Breakaway in a week ago and went for first sail yesterday having
tightened up the rigging, put sails back on etc.
I noticed that the riggers (aided by me) had not brought the foot of
the forestay far enough down the chainplates (two parallel plates
permanently attached to the furling drum) so the strop at foot of the
headsail is not tensioned properly and the angle of the pull from the
jib halyard is nearly parallel to the forestay at the furler - causing
the halyard to wrap around the exposed forestay above the furler.
No big deal - I temporarily lashed the U shackle to which the jib
halyard is tied in a "down" position - giving a non-parallel pul and
solving the halyard wrap problem - but not the under-tensioning at the
foot of the sail.
Obviously I need to temporarily slacken off the backstay & the aft and
centre shrouds and bring the eye at the foot of the forestay
"down"/"forward" one or two bolt-holes.
The only difficulty is in getting a purchase on the eye at foot of
forestay to "pull it down".
The problem being that a clevis pin is used to secure it between the 2
chain plates so I can't simply tie a line to it and run the line through
the bow roller to a winch.
Maybe use the jib halyard to temporarily rake the mast slightly forward
and so take tension off the forestay - disconnect chainplates from
foredeck fitting, move forestay eye "down" the chainplates and use
winch etc to pull foot of chainplates back into position for securing
to foredeck fitting.
I'm sure I'll manage something but haven't had to do this for years so
if anyone has any tips I'd be grateful.
John V1447 Breakaway
--
John A. Kinsella Ph: +353-61-202148 (Direct)
+353-61-333644 x 2148 (Switch)
Mathematics Dept. e-mail: John.Kinsella@...
University of Limerick FAX: +353-61-334927
IRELAND Web: John Kinsella's Website
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