[Rhodes22-list] Head sail repair and broken stay

[stan]

Mike got my response, I was just responding to his mail which he sent to 
me via the List.  He is sending his followup emails to general boat now 
directly to stan at generalboats.com.

However, with Dana and I having the attention of so many brains, we have 
a rigging hangup.  Dana, who sails in Belize, where rigging shops are 
scarce, wanted clockwise tightening on two shrouds we are sending him.  
We were down to our last one so ordered a batch from our supplier.  But 
while they arrived marked R, in each of the misc. bodies we had in our 
50 year collection, the thread swage-on-fittings they sent, while marked 
R, tightened counter clockwise. (No problem with the fork ends that 
swaged to the top end of the 1/8" shroud wire.) So:

1.    Looking down on the top of a turnbuckle /barrel/ wouldn't the R 
designation of the /threaded studs/ swaged at the bottom end of a stay, 
indicate clockwise barrel rotation?

2.    Does the /barrel/ itself also have to be ordered as one designed 
for the tightening direction wanted?  We turned the /barrel/ upside down 
and the R /threaded stud/ would not thread into the other end of the 
/barrel/, in /either/ direction, in any of the /barrels/ (turnbuckle 
bodies) in our collection.

3.    And finally all of your boats use a threaded toggle jaw at the 
chain plate end of each stay's turnbuckle.  I assume these also have to 
be ordered to match the clockwise or counter direction wanted from the 
assembly?

No question about all this for 60 years; the rigging came to us as 
complete assemblies.  Now in the parts business, we have to learn about 
the parts that make up the turnbuckles.   Dana would like to just order 
stays with threaded ends so he can use them with his existing 
turnbuckles on his 81.  We are inventoried to do this but now are 
concerned as to whether they will work with his current turnbuckles.

If no easy way out than Dana finding out the hard way, we will call 
Hayn, our supplier late tomorrow.  My lazy way out is just to buy the 
barrel and threaded toggle that go with the swaged studs we already 
purchased from them.

Just wanted to give you all a break from floating trailers, which I like 
since you can retrieve from shorter ramps.

stan


On 3/1/20 11:36 AM, Dana LeTendre via Rhodes22-list wrote:
> Stan,
>
>       I think you sent the message below to me by mistake, instead of sending it to Mike (I don’t recall his last name).  He’s the one who also needs repair to his headsail.  He also wanted a new turnbuckle to go with his stay.  I just need to get two stays with the CLOCKWISE TIGHTEN threaded stem, no turnbuckles.  Have you received the replacement parts yet?
>
> Later,
>
> Dana
>
>