We've had a Garhauer on Perception for over 10 years have been very pleased with it - have added a lot of other Garhauer stuff as a result - blocks, sheaves, traveller .... Always great price for great quality, and very helpful when you need custom things like sheaves, and goose necks.
Paul Fountain Managing Director SeaSource Inc. Bookkeeping & IT Services. From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Gary Nylander via CnC-List Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 11:16 AM To: Bill Bina - gmail; cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Garhauer Rigid Boom Vang Amen to that. I have had the Garhauer rigid vang for many years on my 30-1 (probably one size up from what would work on a 27) and race on a J-80 with a boomkicker. I find the Garhauer or others like it (raced on another J-80 with a Harken) to be much easier to use and adjust than the boomkicker. We have to haul hard to get the boomkicker to adjust and the boom fitting has given us grief in just two years of use. My Garhauer has had no problems...and has been raced for over a dozen years. Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Bina - gmail via CnC-List<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 10:16 AM 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 ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com<mailto:CnC-List@cnc-list.com> To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
_______________________________________________ Email address: CnC-List@cnc-list.com To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the bottom of page at: http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com
