[Rhodes22-list] Stay there!

[Mark Osterbrock]

Joe,
Remember ,even when your rigging is tuned correctly, when you sail to windward even in moderate breezes your leeward shrouds will develop a certain amount of slack. Sometimes sailors tighten turnbuckles when they see slack on the leeward shrouds on both tacks so there is no slack while sailing to windward.  This can cause too much compression at the base of the mast and damage your boat.



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On Mar 31, 2011 2:29 PM, Joe Camp <jjcampjr at yahoo.com> wrote: 

Hey all:



     Does anyone use lock nuts on the stay turnbuckles?  I was out a couple of 

weeks ago in some really severe winds and noticed that my starboard side stays 

had too much play in them.  I got them tightened down, but had the worst 

happened with all of the mast movement, I may have been fishing the whole damn 

rig out of the water.  Thanks.



Joe Camp

s/v John Dawson

High Point, NC

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