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Always room on Nut Case. Probably on Koobalibra as well Mike From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Abbott Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 10:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Stus-List Slapping wires/halyards Mike: You are correct....I should have said "I no longer race"....when we sold our Kirby 25 in the Fall of 2005 and bought a C&C 32 in March of 2006, I converted from being a full time 'racer' to a lazy 'reacher'. After 25 years (seasons here) of constant racing, both crewing on others' boats and campaigning our K25 for 6 seasons, I simply wanted a change..... in those 25 years, I never missed one Chester Race Week. I still want to be on the water but just doing it in a more relaxing manner. And I am beginning to get back the urge to do a little racing....I wouldn't mind doing the odd race but not be expected to show up on a regular basis. But good racing skippers/crews prefer to have regulars.....I won't commit to do that these days. Rob Abbott AZURA C&C 32 - 84 Halifax, N.S. On 2014/01/31 10:03 AM, Hoyt, Mike wrote: ".....I don't race....." And yet the first time I actually met you in person Bob you were sitting on Bruce Dempsey's boat after a race. (OK Bruce's current boat has probably raced a total of two times in last five years and in only fun races ....but ... ) For my friend Bob I would change that to "I no longer race" because there was a heck of a lot of racing before that for you and Dwight and others ...... From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Abbott Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 5:52 PM To: [email protected]; 'Stevan Plavsa' Subject: Stus-List Slapping wires/halyards Neil: If my boat was installed like Steve's, I wouldn't even worry about it.....I don't race.....my genoa is a roller fuller...it goes up and mostly stays up. And the way I use my main, I hardly doubt the chaffing would be any worst than the UV damage....probably not going to shorten the life of any halyard under these circumstances. Rob Abbott AZURA C&C 32 - 84 Halifax, N.S. On 2014/01/30 12:24 PM, Neil Andersen wrote: Steve, That is a great idea. I would think if you stagger the Zip Ties (around the clock looking down on the wire) every 90 degrees, you would end up with your wires running down close to the middle and create 4 smaller channels for the halyards. That would reduce the amount of movement of the halyards. With you installation, have you found any abrasion on the halyards in your mast? Neil FoxFire, 1982 C&C32 Worton Creek, MD From: Stevan Plavsa [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 3:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: slapping wires/halyards Hi Neil, I own a 32 and when I re-wired my mast I used the largest zip ties I could find and zipped them around the wire every couple of feet as I fed it in. Once inside the mast the long zip tie "tails" press against the inner walls of the mast and they do help. I don't know what to do about halyards though. Hope that's helpful. Steve Suhana, C&C 32 Toronto _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected] _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]
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