I'm attending a boatshow on Sunday and may purchase a length of appropriate diameter line, but as far as length, I'm unsure. My lines lead aft to the cockpit. How long is your Catalina 27 halyard? do you add a few feet to be able to end for end and cut off a few inches (especially the part that rests on the turning block when the main is up)? Do you need an eye splice or will a simple bowline suffice for the shackle? Splices run $20/ea in the chandlery.
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try the C27 Association website
and make some measurements from the brochures. Your boat, your choice on splices vs bowlines. We've used bowlines for the past 35 years. Oh, once I used a splice, on an anchor line.
and make some measurements from the brochures. Your boat, your choice on splices vs bowlines. We've used bowlines for the past 35 years. Oh, once I used a splice, on an anchor line.
Halyard Lengths
Tim: Just so happens that last Sunday I was thinking about replacing my halyards and looked up the info in some of my notes for my CAT 27...From page 15 of my Catalina 27 Parts Catalogue I relay the following: Main Halyard Wire, 7 X 19, 1/8" X 32'-0" Main Halyard Tail, Braided Dacron, 5/16" X 35'-0" Jib Halyard Wire, 7 X 19, 1/8" X 35'-0" Jib Halyard Tail, Braided Dacron, 5/16" X 35'-0" If you look around at PYACHT and the like you will find lines already made up...they may be a bit longer, but cutting is easier that adding. Hope that this helps....DAVE
Tim: Just so happens that last Sunday I was thinking about replacing my halyards and looked up the info in some of my notes for my CAT 27...From page 15 of my Catalina 27 Parts Catalogue I relay the following: Main Halyard Wire, 7 X 19, 1/8" X 32'-0" Main Halyard Tail, Braided Dacron, 5/16" X 35'-0" Jib Halyard Wire, 7 X 19, 1/8" X 35'-0" Jib Halyard Tail, Braided Dacron, 5/16" X 35'-0" If you look around at PYACHT and the like you will find lines already made up...they may be a bit longer, but cutting is easier that adding. Hope that this helps....DAVE
can make them shorter/ can not make them longer
I just repaced two of my halyards. I made them both a little longer than the owner manual stated. Plus I measured out myself ( I knew the height of my mast ) Then measured back two cockpit plus a few feet to grab on to. In case manual was wrong.
I just repaced two of my halyards. I made them both a little longer than the owner manual stated. Plus I measured out myself ( I knew the height of my mast ) Then measured back two cockpit plus a few feet to grab on to. In case manual was wrong.
Halyard length
Thanks for your help guys. I did actually come across the sizing diagram in my 1985 owners manual that says 5/16" x 68' dacron line. I'll add a few feet beyond that just to be sure.
Thanks for your help guys. I did actually come across the sizing diagram in my 1985 owners manual that says 5/16" x 68' dacron line. I'll add a few feet beyond that just to be sure.
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