[Rhodes22-list] backstay tension/traveler bar

[Mark Kaynor]

Phyllis,

Raven (1988) has the same setup - single holes in both the traveler bar and
the end caps. Try rotating the traveler until the holes line up - maybe
you're trying to install the traveler incorrectly. The clam cleats for the
traveler line go on top, if I remember correctly.

Mark 

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Thanks ALL for your help...

I have inspected the sockets several times...last summer and again now,
clearly there was never any hole there...my hunch is that Bob has hit it
that my model a 1986, with probably original traveler bar- the stay sockets
never had a hole-perhaps the screw theory might be it.  I would think the
socket would have the hole, a short screw to go in and impress into the
traveler bar...but it seems the other way around... I have the hole in the
traveler bar, once put into the socket the hole on the traveler bar is
covered up by the socket!
Perhaps I have two different pieces from different years models, the stay
sockets from one vintage and the traveler bar from another...
There have been several owners of this boat over the years..

Just to assure all that the stays themselves look very solid and not worn.

I have put in a message to Stan directly to see if he has anything to add or
anything I can buy from General Boats to help remedy this situation...

Rummy, that is a great photo and clearly I can see the place where the
clevis pin should be.

Thanks all.

Phyllis

> From: "Robert  Quinn" <rjquinn at bellsouth.net>
> Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:22:50 -0400
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] backstay tension/traveler bar
> 
> Phyllis: Depending on the year of the boat, earlier models had "set
screws"
> to hold the travel bar in place.  Take a look at the holes and see if 
> you can detect screw groves.  If so, the set screws are missing and 
> need to be replaced.  I do not, off hand, know the size.
> 
> Later boats have holes both in the ends of the travel bar and the cap 
> ends that the traveler bar fit into, through which clevis pins fit to 
> hold the bar in place.  I like that set up better and would recommend 
> that you modify your set up to that system.
> 
> In ten years we never needed a Loos gage.  Tuned by eye (mast 
> straight) and shrouds tightened to give a firm (but not too tight) feel.
> 
> Bob on the "NoKaOi"
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