Exactly Buy the right size and it costs 400-500. The "$1200 when new" vang from a 30 that Peter mentioned I inappropriate
Mike From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Bill Bina - gmail via CnC-List Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 11:16 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Garhauer Rigid Boom Vang Garhauer rigid vang is $400-$500, not $1200. I have one on my 27-5 and it is perfect. Garhauer is a great company to deal with, and their stuff is very high quality. Bill Bina On 3/4/2015 10:04 AM, Hoyt, Mike via CnC-List wrote: Peter Consider a Boom kicker in conjunction with your soft vang as another option. Plan on $300 brand new. On our J-27 I opted for a US Spars rigid vang for $400 new. I gave away my rope vang and blocks (the fiddle block was 1 year old) when I added this. Most of the J27 fleet went with the boomkicker. The US Spars vang includes line and blocks attached to vang. After the first year I decided I did not like this arrangement and added a rope vang with new blocks in addition to the rigid vang and was happy with that. Took the price up close to $200. I likely should have gone with the boomkicker. The C&C 27 is a fairly small boat with a much smaller sail plan that the J27 and of course much smaller than C&C 30. The arrangements described above would work well on your 27. The only thing I was less satisfied with on the US Spars rigid vang was the boom attachment which is a bit lighter weight than I would like. However again the C&C 27 has a smaller sail plan and less pressures than the J27. Unfortunately I do not have pictures. The weakness of the boom end attachment for the US Spars vang was that it only had 2 rivets and with the blocks on the rigid vang itself there was tremendous pressure on those rivets when vang on tight. With the rigid vang being used for upward pressure and a traditional rope and block vang for downward pressure and attached at the bail on the boom as designed this pressure is gone. I do hope this helps. A $1200 rigid vang is very much overkill on a 27. Buy something new for $400 or less Mike Persistence Frers 33
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