Hi All,
I searched the forum and didn't see anything on this topic. My 1988 Catalina 36 MKI, I've owned for 1 year, has a terrible mast pumping, shaking, issue in wind at anchor and dock. I went around and tighted every single stay except the forestay, got them super duper tight. They were way easy to tighten when I started, especially the backstay which now takes some force to tighten more. When I now tug on any of the stays it takes a lot of tugging force to get the mast to bounce/shake/pump, whereas before it took almost no hand pressure to get it to do it. So I think that is solved correctly...?
My real question is, no amount of tightening on either port or startboard, moved the mast side to side. From the inside, I can see the mast is resting port and aft in the deck hole. Is that normal? Using a plumb bob, but mast is not straight, but only slightly, and that's really because the entire boat leans to port, which is common on these as the galley and other weight is all over there. So i think the mast is most likely straight. See photos of the deck hole. Normal? There's also only 3 wedges. 2 toward the bow, and one on the starboard. Bow two are tight. Starboard loose as can be.
I searched the forum and didn't see anything on this topic. My 1988 Catalina 36 MKI, I've owned for 1 year, has a terrible mast pumping, shaking, issue in wind at anchor and dock. I went around and tighted every single stay except the forestay, got them super duper tight. They were way easy to tighten when I started, especially the backstay which now takes some force to tighten more. When I now tug on any of the stays it takes a lot of tugging force to get the mast to bounce/shake/pump, whereas before it took almost no hand pressure to get it to do it. So I think that is solved correctly...?
My real question is, no amount of tightening on either port or startboard, moved the mast side to side. From the inside, I can see the mast is resting port and aft in the deck hole. Is that normal? Using a plumb bob, but mast is not straight, but only slightly, and that's really because the entire boat leans to port, which is common on these as the galley and other weight is all over there. So i think the mast is most likely straight. See photos of the deck hole. Normal? There's also only 3 wedges. 2 toward the bow, and one on the starboard. Bow two are tight. Starboard loose as can be.
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