Yes, boat do flex. After two ocean crossing, I dismantled some of the bulkhead I've added to create more storage, because I needed to gain access to the chainplates. All the screws were bent to some extent. But it's not only the boat that flex. When the boat tilt suddenly at the top of the wave, like what you see in the video, the top of the mast is under an important stress as well as the stay because of the sudden acceleration impose by the tilting on the wave. That is followed shortly after by a radical deceleration as soon as the boat hit the wave. Suddenly the tension in the stay is released and taken up by the back stay in a split second. The movement of the stay you see is largely the transfer of this tension. When going on the ocean the rigging tension should be stiffer than for normal cruising or racing to reduce the movement of the mast is such waves.
Antoine (Cousin, C&C 30) Le 2013-10-11 à 17:40, Ed Levert a écrit : > Try this one also. Had one of the best lines in an commercial broadcast > quickly after the event. Went something like this. > > "One Australia - the only thing that goes down faster than a Steinlager." > > Ed L > Briar Patch C&C 34 > New Orleans > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yau9A7XDHs > > > > From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Dennis C. > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 4:35 PM > To: CnClist > Subject: Stus-List Do sailboats flex? (with link this time) > > Oops. Here's the link. Watch the forestay at 00:31. > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GvkWjQYzuCM> > > Dennis C. > Touche' 35-1 #83 > Mandeville, LA > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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