Stay master = in NOT an infinite adjustment to locking mechanism makes it incremental. The increments are pretty small that is true ; about 0.5 to 1 mm. Anyway this can easily be calculated by measuring the thread height and dividing by the number of side that the nut has. Also it has a max load of 700 kg and it is cumbsersome to slacken the stays temporarily or readjust mast rake from sloop to catrigged sailing; at least I think so. I personally started looking for an alternative after when I found the stay master unsatisfactory, but that is my personal opinion. I would be happy to have it on any production boat, but since I build my own I could try to get it better.

Jerry, if you are interested and want a different range of adjustment or different size minimal adjustement then I can run the numbers for you. Just e-mail me.

I must say everybody that at first these shifted-overlap adjuster look REALLY small when fitted to your boat. At least I thought they did I expected them to break any second, but after running the numbers I found them to be pretty strong anyway, that is with proper quality of stainless steel. But if you have to use lower quality then just increase the width of the strip and get the same load bearing quality.

Here is the real thing :





Now tell me if that ain't small. The two strips (I have a slightly different setup, but I would have prefered the 3 strip setup) are combined only 4 mm thick. It is a really flat adjuster and weights next to nothing. Staymaster etc are 4 times as heavy. And on our lightweight boats all weight savings count. On this you safe about 250 grams.

Wouter