[Rhodes22-list] Re design of Rhodes Interior and elimination of compressi...

[Rick]

The easiest way to bust your mast step is to tighten leeward stays.  Always
tighten stays when the boat is level and no sails are deployed.

Use cotter pins to lock the turnbuckles.  I use velco wrapped pins which
make trailering easier.

Rick

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:10 PM, cowie <ccowie at cowieassociates.com> wrote:

>
> This discussion has been helpful for me as a new r22 2009 owner.  I hand
> tightened my stays and avoided using any tools in order not to over
> tighten.
> When healed over my leeward stays do have some slack.  would it make sense
> to hand tighten the slack stays while healed over?  Or would it be wiser to
> take a few extra turns with a tool when the boat is level until the slack
> when healed is eliminated?  I also notice that my stays sometimes go slack
> over time and suppose I need to secure the turn buckle after hand
> tightening.  What is the proper way to secure the stay?  Tape, wire, pins
> or
> some other devise?
>
>
> Rick-139 wrote:
> >
> > ML is right about stay tension not affecting sailing performance with
> IMF.
> > Except the forestay which should be tightened using the aftstay tensioner
> > when headed up wind.
> >
> > Too tight or too loose does stress the mast step.  Hand tightening takes
> > care of that just fine.  Using a Loos guage is cutting butter with a
> chain
> > saw.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Mary Lou Troy <mtroy at atlanticbb.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> At 08:09 PM 6/2/2009, Rummy wrote:
> >> >owners who tightened their
> >> >stays to the  point that they did significant damage to their hulls.
> I'm
> >> >simply saying that  there is no known statistic for the R22 using the
> >> Loos
> >> >gauge. Certainly nothing  from General Boats. Common sense wins out on
> >> this
> >> >topic. Taking nothing away  from Mary Lou.
> >>
> >> Right. There's a reason I haven't voiced an opinion on this issue.
> >>
> >> We've had our stays too tight. We've had our stays too loose. We've
> >> even used a Loos Gauge.
> >>
> >> None of it seems to make too much difference in how the boat sails. I
> >> suspect too tight contributed to the depression of the compression
> >> post. Too loose once left us with a dangling shroud when it managed
> >> to gradually unscrew itself - we started using cotter rings on the
> >> turnbuckles and now use a bit of monel wire through the hole in the
> >> turnbuckle screw and wrapped around the turnbuckle - easier to fasten
> >> and unfasten than cotter rings. That might have been Rummy's idea. If
> >> you use it make sure the ends of the wire are on the inside of the
> >> turnbuckle. I snagged the seat of my pants while adjusting a fender.
> >> Oops.
> >>
> >> Mary Lou
> >> 1991 R22 Fretless
> >> Rock Hall, MD
> >>
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