Rigging Wrong

[marinesails22]

Hello O'day owners,

I have an O'day 22 and I am hoping to teach myself to sail. Yes, yes I know, many hours of frustration before joy but, I'm ready, however, the boat is not. I am having trouble rigging the jib on the 22. I have a furler, however the jib an furler do not reach the deck to be able to attach the furler to the bracket. I'm already to sail except for the jib rigging. Can any knowledgeable O'day owner help out a new comer to the family. Looking for help.

 

[Joe11688]

Hello O'day owners,

I have an O'day 22 and I am hoping to teach myself to sail. Yes, yes I know, many hours of frustration before joy but, I'm ready, however, the boat is not. I am having trouble rigging the jib on the 22. I have a furler, however the jib an furler do not reach the deck to be able to attach the furler to the bracket. I'm already to sail except for the jib rigging. Can any knowledgeable O'day owner help out a new comer to the family. Looking for help.

If the furler was used previously on this boat by the prevous owner, try loosening the back stay and the side stays a little to get the slack needed to attach the furler to the first hole in the bow plate. Then you're going to have to re-tune the mast. Hopefully the mast won't be raked too far forward that the boat has lee helm when you let go of the tiller. You're going to have to try it out to find out. You want a little weather helm so she will come up into the wind. If this doesn't work, put it back to where it was in the beginning and just make up the difference with a short tang or link of some kind. I purposely added a special 5" tang to my bow plate to make room for my anchor roller on my bow when I first got my furler. I just bolted the tang to the bow plate and connected my furler drum turnbuckle in the usual way with a rigging pin. I had the sailmaker cut my Genoa down to fit the furler luff on the fore stay.
You can teach yourself to sail. This is how I learned about sailing. The knowledge to learn is at your local public library, and the rest is up to you. If you're completely green at boating, it's a good idea to take a safe boating course or the basic piloting course put out by the USPS. This is one course that I recommend highly. Good luck with the O'Day 22!
Joe

 

[estopa]

Anyone use a tension gauge? I was thinking of getting one but what would be a safe measure to tighten the stays without overtightening and creating a dangerous situation.

"Provides an accurate measurement of the tension in rigging wire and other types of wire used in recreational applications. It is particularly useful for accurate and repeatable tuning of a sailboats standing rigging. Designed and tested to provide an accuracy of plus or minus 3% at midrange."

http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|118|107602|108024&id=180160

 

[Joe11688]

Anyone use a tension gauge? I was thinking of getting one but what would be a safe measure to tighten the stays without overtightening and creating a dangerous situation.

"Provides an accurate measurement of the tension in rigging wire and other types of wire used in recreational applications. It is particularly useful for accurate and repeatable tuning of a sailboats standing rigging. Designed and tested to provide an accuracy of plus or minus 3% at midrange."

http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|118|107602|108024&id=180160

Hi George,
I have the Loose Gauge class A, very similar to that one. You have to go by the thickness of your stays, which should be 1/8" on your boat. I'm tuning my upper stays to number 15 and my lower stays to a little less which I'm not sure of. Probably number 12. You have a range of choices for the 1/8" wire. As long as you stay within that range you're OK.
Joe