Tom,
Thanks for the information and warning! I will take a moment to check this out on my
mast as well.
Again Thanks,
Randy G.
M-15 #407
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From: Smith, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Fri 1/24/2003 10:28 AM
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Subject: M_Boats: Mast Chafe/Standing Rigging--a cautionary tale
Thought M15 sailors might like to hear about my experience regarding standing
rigging.
I've decided to replace my shrouds and head stay this winter. The rigging's
been around since '86, and there are a couple kinks that bother me. On the M15, a
bolt runs through the cable thimble on one shroud, enters the mast, runs through a
pressed on terminal on the headstay, exits the mast, and runs through the thimble of
the other shroud--all neat and tidy. I removed the rigging the other night in order to
measure it, and was surprised to see significant chafe on the mast where the starboard
shroud attaches to the mast. The thimble at the shroud end is secured with a
nicropressed sleeve (please bear with any errors in terminology--you'll get the
idea...).
As it happens, the sleeve on the starboard shroud was either attached too
close to the thimble, or migrated closer on its own, and deformed the little pointy
ends (ah, terminology) of the thimble so they stuck out sideways. This protrusion
(and the sleeve itself) actually chaffed a tiny hole in the mast. Even wrapping the
sleeve with rigging tape would not have protected the area from this prolonged metal
to metal contact.
Regardless, a closer inspection on my part would have revealed the problem and
I'd have fixed it. When you have the mast down, take the opportunity a couple times a
season to look all that aloft stuff over. t
Tom Smith & Jane Van Winkle
Sandpoint, Idaho
M15-345, Chukar
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Subject: M_Boats: Great Salt Lake sailors
SCA editors posted a request from GSL sailors.....
Keith?
http://members3.boardhost.com/SCABoard/msg/1035.html
Tod
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