Rake can (and arguably should) be adjusted by moving the foot of the mast. This basically helps keep the mast centered in the deck at the partners. Unfortunately the mast shoe often makes doing this nearly impossible. Of course changing the forestay length can also be a challenge. Remember that changing rake will cause changes to other dynamics such as the halyard lead to the furler which may result in halyard wraps. Fortunately most of our boats do not have swept spreaders or if they are it is only very slight. Adding rake would shorten them. Unless you recut the mailsail the boom will tip lower for the same leach tension. Besides headroom, this can impact dodger clearance.
Just things to consider. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Mon, Mar 15, 2021, 18:58 Len Mitchell via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Agree the backstay tensions the forestay but you want to set your mast > rake using forestay length and appropriate blocking at the mast base of > course. Rake should be specified in your manual. > > Len Mitchell > > S/V Crazy Legs > > 1989 C&C 37+ > > Midland On. > > > Sent from my iPad > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with > the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks > - Stu
Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu
