Ivan,
The how changes from brand to brand. I suspect I could change one with the mast up but I'm pretty handy when it comes to rigging. I engineering and built the rigging to lower my mast in a few hours sitting on a dock in Richmond.. I lowered it single handed when I was done and hauled her out that evening. CD has sold copies of my rigging to other C270 owners. On our Schaefer 750 you can loosen set screws to raise a cover at the base of the foil to expose the turnbuckle. You simply unscrew the upper stud from the turnbuckle and it will pass up through the foil. There's at least one brand of furler that required a fitting be crimped after the wire has been thread through the foil. Be sure you determine the brand and model number of the furler before you talk with a rigging supplier. Phil Agur <http://www.catalina27.org/public_pages/profile270.htm> s/v Wing Tip Secretary, C270 LE #184 IC27/270A MMSI 366901790 www.catalina27.org <http://www.catalina27.org/> Vessel Doc# 1039809 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ivan Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 1:22 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Running Rigging Thanks Kevin, Sounds like that will be easier than I thought. Have you ever changed a forestay? Any tips? --- On Fri, 11/7/08, Kevin Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Kevin Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: Running Rigging To: [email protected] Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 5:17 AM Hello Ivan, yes the forestay runs through the foil. :-) Kevin M. Morton S/V Serenity #1920 _/)_ --- On Thu, 11/6/08, ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: ivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: catalina27-talk: Running Rigging To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 11:39 AM Hello all, I decided to go with the all rope halyards since my current wire/rope halyards have frayed pretty badly this year. When I took a trip up the mast to see what would be involved in changing the sheaves I noticed that my forestay had some broken wires in that as well. So the mast is coming down, with a crane, instead of waiting for it to come down on it's own! Does anyone have a good source for running rigging? I have a roller furler and don't really know much about changing the forestay with one of these. It looks like it just runs through the foil, but without being able to take it off I haven't really tired to figure it out yet. So if anyone can offer some help with that I would certainly appreciate it! -Ivan
