My boat came with a baby stay on a Schaeffer track. I replaced the track with a Harken high profile track and a Harken traveler car. I can snug it by hand, but I can also lead it to a spinnaker halyard winch through a Lewmar clutch. In light air, I release the clutch, and push the BS back to the mast. when racing in heavy air, and on the ocean, I tension the BS. It prevents mast pumping, and it helps to flatten the main in heavy iar.
Alan Bergen 35 Mk III Thirsty Rose City YC Portland, OR On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 6:47 PM, schiller via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com > wrote: > John, > > I agree. I sited up the mast on Glenn Gambel's C&C 36 during the Queens > cup race and notice how much the mast was pumping. I tightened the baby > stay as much as I could without using a winch and it quieted down > significantly. > > I was not very familiar with a baby stay with our Redwing 35. It had dual > lowers and a tree trunk mast. > > Our C&C 35-3 has a baby stay without a track and car. It is one of the > things that I have contemplated adding. I have never felt that the mast > was pumping an it. Having been dis-masted, some of the people that I > talked with during repair discussion said that they have dealt with mast > pumping failures (not on C&C's). > > Neil Schiller > 1983 C&C 35-3, #028, "Grace" > Whitehall, Michigan > WLYC > > > > > > >
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