After the rigging is tuned on a Hunter 23.5, can the mast be lowered and stepped again without touching the turnbuckles on the shrouds? Or do you have to loosen or remove the turnbuckles and re-tune each time the mast is stepped?
H23.5: can the mast be lowered stepped after the rigging is tuned?
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The shrouds can stay in place, but the forestay will need to be loosened to unpin lower and retightened after it is raised and repined.
Take extra care, take extra care that the turnbuckles are straight up and down before raising the mast.
That should be in BOLD TYPE and a foot stomper, STOMP, STOMP "Take extra care that the turnbuckles are straight up and down", STOMP, STOMP.
Take extra care, take extra care that the turnbuckles are straight up and down before raising the mast.
That should be in BOLD TYPE and a foot stomper, STOMP, STOMP "Take extra care that the turnbuckles are straight up and down", STOMP, STOMP.
Yes, watch the turnbuckles and shrouds for any kinks or catching on something. If you feel any resistance stop and assess. If all is setup right the mast goes up and down easily. A really good system I think.
I found it much easier to raise/lower the mast if the side shrouds were loosened a few turns. I would simply count how many turns I loosened them, and then write that on a piece of masking tape with a sharpe that I taped to that particular turnbuckle. Never had an issue.