Re: M_Boats: Re: Standing rigging

[Richard Lane]

On my M23 I used to initially tighten upper and lower shrouds and not 
pin the tensioners, go out in 12-15kts breeze and hard on the wind just 
take nearly all the slack out of the leeward shrouds, tack and repeat, 
pin tensioners. I found that if the boat was newly in the water I had to 
retighten after a week or so.
Dick

Jerry Duke wrote:

Hello Tod,

When you installed your new standing rigging what method did you use 
to fine tune it?  I would like to hear from anyone about installing 
and adjusting standing rigging on a M17 from scratch.

Regards,
Jerry
M17 333 Mystic

Yes, thank you, Werner!

Busca's slowly getting ready for the CBR:

New standing rigging, new smaller 5/16" mainsheet, freshly cleaned, 
etc...

Although the windvane is not ready to go (I am one SLOW dude), the 
new control-line
adjustment is finished and will make the sheet-to-tiller much easier 
to set up and adjust, I believe.

I had found that one of the upper shrouds was kinked slightly at the 
masthead and that the
masthead casting was wearing a slight groove in the terminal, so 
while installing the new
rigging I ground the casting down slightly to eliminate the contact 
point (or at least spread
it out and soften it up).

Tod Mills
M-17 #408, "BuscaBrisas"
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