New O'day 192

Mar 20, 2020
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Oday 192 Eagle Creek Reservoir
Hey all! I bought the O'day 192 I was looking at and I'm real excited to get working on it! A couple starting points:

1. Can anyone who has this boat please send photos of their rigging. I have the general idea, but any photos are helpful!

2. One of the first things I noticed is the mast seems to be back leaning. Is this normal or do I need to adjust the turnbuckles to straighten her out? The backstay seems loose, while the forestay was having a hard time reaching the forward pin. The inner shrouds felt real tight while the outer shrouds seemed either about right or maybe even slightly loose. Not an expert here so please feel free to talk to me as if I know absolutely nothing!

Lot's more questions to come I'm sure, but this seemed like the best place to start! I'll be posting lots of photos as I work on this baby so stay tuned!!!
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Jul 12, 2025
2
O'Day 192 and DS2 Muskegon
The other day I was searching for stay tension guidelines. I do such searches not limited to one site but rather worldwide information access. I usually come up with what I want and bypass having to end up on forums never knowing if I'll get the right answer and probably many I don't want or need. You have to word your searches carefully. You are talking to a computer, a filing system, not a human. If you take a course such as, files records management, that they used to teach to people who actually had to think how to file and organize files you would have a good legs up on how to word your searches. But basically, start with a forest and narrow down to a blade of grass or a bush the best you can, using as little words as possible. Each word complicates the search and could end you where you don't want to go. Enough of that. Here's something I copy and paste it for my own use on my 192. I'm sorry I don't have the source. It was part of a much larger piece that I had found searching as I described above. If you notice he mentions the Selden Mass tuning guide.
"I treat forestay and upper shrouds like a tripod, and adjust to keep straight side to side (use main halyard down to chain plates to measure and keep equal) and also to set amount of rake based on a little bit (6-9º or so) of weather helm in about 10 knot winds close hauled. I don’t like too much backstay, or else it makes my Dwyer mast look like it kinks aft in a weird, not fair way for the tip above the hounds. Lowers should pull the mast straight side-to-side (no bowing) but be careful about too much lower tension, because they can pull any pre-bend right out of the mast. My sailmaker said there should be about 3/4” of pre-bend. When sailing close hauled in @12 knots or so, the leeward lower get loose but not slack. Remember, these boats aren’t performance oriented, and I don’t think the rig can handle as much tension as rigging guides like from Seldén Mast suggest. Other than that, the Seldén Mast tuning guide is pretty good."
 
Jul 12, 2025
2
O'Day 192 and DS2 Muskegon
Do you know if you have a Dwyer or a z-spar mast? Basically, halyards outside mast is a Dwyer and halyards inside is a z-spar. The z spar has what looks like heat sinks or fins on the bottom. You will need to know the difference when you order parts relative to the mast.