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[Re: Rolf_Nilsen]
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| Mmm, and when you sheet in your main the boom force your mast to rotate, dont it?
I set the rig as hard as I can get it by sheeting the main hard with the traveller all the way out. This makes it easy to tighten (or release) the shrouds.
Having the shrouds tight is more important in light winds than in strong winds, as you will sheet the main less to make it twist. This makes the headstay sag so the jib becomes too deep, unless you tension the rig. In stronger winds the leeward shroud will go slack anyway, so it's not as important.
Seems to work for us. Never occurred to me to do it that way! Of course I almost never use the jib. My main concern was scoring on the cone bearing, which is very noticable. | | | Re: shroud tension
[Re: Rolf_Nilsen]
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Looking for a Job, I got credi... | Mmm, and when you sheet in your main the boom force your mast to rotate, dont it?
I set the rig as hard as I can get it by sheeting the main hard with the traveller all the way out. This makes it easy to tighten (or release) the shrouds.
Having the shrouds tight is more important in light winds than in strong winds, as you will sheet the main less to make it twist. This makes the headstay sag so the jib becomes too deep, unless you tension the rig. In stronger winds the leeward shroud will go slack anyway, so it's not as important.
Seems to work for us. I've not made many decisions on setting up the 16 yet, but I set the 17 up similarly to Rolf in terms of "as much tension as I can get and still rotate the mast". My shrouds are still streaching on the 16, but I'll start with this as a ballpark method - tight as possible and still allow the mast to rotate, and then add a little more when it's windy. When sailing the Hurricane 5.9 we used to add on rig tension as the wind went up.
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12/19/06 11:10 AM 12/19/06 11:10 AM |
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| When actually sailing the boat the lee shroud is totally slack. Perhaps the issue is to simply minimize slop in the rig without messing anything else up
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