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HappyNow
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Initially Posted - 09/13/2016 :  10:28:54  Show Profile
West Marine has the ACR floating personal locator rescue beacon ResQLink with a $50 rebate from Sept 1 to December. Any single handers might want to consider it. I haven't seen a lower price.
Michael Levin
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Lake Tahoe

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Response Posted - 09/14/2016 :  23:34:50  Show Profile
Thanks for the heads up. Looks like we sail in the same waters. Where is your boat located? We will be out cruising and camping this weekend on Tahoe and look forward to running into you sometime. We are moored on West shore near Sunnyside.
1998 250 WK/TR #355 "Trail Break"
Lake Tahoe California
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 09/15/2016 :  14:52:51  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
You can get it for $10 cheaper on Amazon, then apply the rebate.
David
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HappyNow
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Response Posted - 09/15/2016 :  23:26:15  Show Profile
Thanks , David.
Tahoe Cruiser, would love to get together. I am on a mooring at High and Dry in Homewwod, and hope to sail this weekend but not sure since one of the short stays on the mast snapped yesterday, and I'm hoping Obexer has it fixed tomorrow. Can you email me off the forum and we can exchange phone numbers and get together? This is my first year to have the boat so I'd love to pick your brain about sailing at Tahoe and see your boat. I'm sure I've sailed past it..
Michael Levin
Sailin' on Sunshine
C250 #402 WK
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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 09/16/2016 :  04:58:39  Show Profile
I'd be very curious to hear about the short stay snapping. These should be under very low tension - far less than any of the other shrouds, backstay, or forestay. How did it get enough tension to snap? Did it get fouled during mast raising?

If it snapped due to corrosion or other degradation, you should probably be looking at replacing all of them.
Rick S., Swarthmore, PA
PO of Take Five, 1998 Catalina 250WK #348 (relocated to Baltimore's Inner Harbor)
New owner of 2001 Catalina 34MkII #1535 Breakin' Away (at Rock Hall Landing Marina)
Edited by - TakeFive on 09/16/2016 04:59:56
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HappyNow
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Response Posted - 09/16/2016 :  08:23:48  Show Profile
Rick-- I think the shroud parted due to rust that I couldn't see inside the fitting at the deck. I bought the boat this year, and thought the PO told me they'd been replaced at some point, but can't remember for sure. There was not any fraying that I could see or feel. The tension was all on the uppers, none on the lowers except when it was the windward side. We were sailing on a close reach, 12-15 mph winds, heeled at about 15 degrees when it went twang and pop, but only half the strands parted. The rigger says it looks like all original Catalina rigging which would make it about 17 years old. Always in fresh water. I'm going to replace both short stays today, and then only have 2 weeks of sailing left this year in Tahoe, so replace the rest when we pull the boat in two weeks. Any recommendations on replacing everything I should be aware of? The rigger is replacing with 416 and new turnbuckles.
Michael Levin
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