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Bruce Baker
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Initially Posted - 03/17/2003 :  10:16:19  Show Profile
After months of waiting for a nice day, I finally put the mast up on Saturday. We used the "brute force" method, where three guys lifted the mast up, two on the mast and one on the forestay. Then the guy on the forestay went around and attached all the guys and stays. I noticed that the forestay is a bit too short. The mast is currently raked forward about 6 inches while the backstay is attached to a an extra "spacer" bracket.

A while back, I read that one of our group wanted to the boatyard to put up the stick because of problems attaching the forestay (maybe he has a roller furler? I just junked mine.) Any conjectures? I'm pretty sure the forestay went through the drum of the roller and attached to the forward "strap" on the bow.

Bruce Baker
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John Mason
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Response Posted - 03/17/2003 :  16:32:45  Show Profile
You don't have any kind of spacer under the mast base that would elevate that? Aloft, the forestay is attached to the masthead pin closest to the mast? No kinks or twists?

http://c25c250.best.vwh.net/restricted/4-1-6.gif

The turnbuckle components are at their maximum extention and neither of the threaded parts that go into the turnbuckle look shorter than the other (broken off)?

Could the forestay have been modified for the roller furling (it's probably a long shot)?

Okay, well then, I'm out of ideas.

John Mason
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