O'Day 25 rigging?

[Tabi II]

We just put our new-to-us 1978 O'Day 25 in the water and are rigging it up. Can someone please tell me what the rigging is for in the attached photo? We have two of these and suspect they are for the mast raising system to connect onto the two triangle plates one the side stays. Can someone please post photos for rigging the outhaul and downhaul. Want to make use we set the boat up correctly.

We bought the boat trailered and the owner is out of state. Have not seen any other O'Day 25s moored at our lake, so have no local resource. Thanks for any help on this!

 

[hman]

Looks like a halyard

Most O'days have wire halyards with rope attached, which is what this looks like to me. Are your halyards in place on the mast?

 

[Tabi II]

Re: Looks like a halyard

Yes, all the rigging is on the boat and these appear to be extra. The boat standing rigging appears recently replaced along with the halyards, so we were unsure if these were old/replaced items or for something else.. These would be too short for halyards.

We checked last night and these are the right length to be the boom-guides lines that attach at the triangle plates at the chain plates and the straps at the end of the boom for the mast raising system option. Since our boat has a topping lift and the triangle plates we are confident these are for the mast raising system.

Thank you for your input!

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Looks like a rabbit snare. The picture, I agree looks like halyard material (wire rope with a main halyard shackle). But, probably for the mast raising system.

 

[RichBone]

It looks almost new with no wear or weathering. If it's a halyard it wasn't used much if at all.

 

[Brian S]

I first suspected that it might be a wire to rope halyard, but you can clearly see that the wire has a nicopress swaged eye on it, to a spliced eye on the double braid line. Most wire to line splices I have seen are much more streamlined so that they can easily pass through a wire sheave. Also, the shackle is a twist shackle, and I know that I, for one, would not use a twist shackle on a halyard, because they are too fiddly. I'd rather have a halyard shackle with an easier to remove pin.

Since Tabi says there are two of them, perhaps they are baby stays to be used for mast raising.

Brian

 

[Tabi II]

Yes Brian that is what we have deduced. They are the boom-guide lines for the mast raising system. Thanks to all for the input. What a great resource this forum is!

 

[Sunbird22358]

Mast-Raising instructions, it appears that a previous owner made a couple of "upgrades" to the setup, by adding the cables ad shackles.