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Early C250 WB and backstay arrangement

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jeanetcarole
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Initially Posted - 01/05/2004 : 19:22:50

I own a C250 WB #44 and found in the instruction book folder the original brochure for the C250. To my amazement, it shows the hull #3 under sail and using a single backstay tied to the port side. Mine came with the single backstay and the 7' bridle.
I wonder what happened and why did they change the standing gear.
Any ideas ?

Cachalot
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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 01/05/2004 : 20:48:46

An interesting question... I noted that when I took delivery of #224 in Jan of '96. Also interesting is that the C25 I think also had a single offset backstay during its early production.

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frog0911
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Response Posted - 01/05/2004 : 23:28:21

Our 79 C25 (1166) had a single offset backstay as opposed to our 04 C250 (743) which has a split backstay anchored to the stern pulpit seats rather than chain plates on the boat stern. Only Catalina seems to know the rhime or reason for all the different locations, but they won't tell anyone.

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Dkn420
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Response Posted - 01/06/2004 : 00:52:06

Frog: It just dawned on me after reading your post that I did contact Kent Nelson with a question in regard to the backstay location, as it is different on our boats even with the hull numbers being so close together...following is his reply:

<font color="blue"><b>Dan,
We are constantly making improvements to our boats based on feedback from our customers, we do not restrict improvements to model year changes. Several have mentioned that they would like more room in the helm area. We found that going to the stern rails added clearance, but have since changed to a single backstay, no bridles, mounted to the portside cockpit, which simplified the mast stepping process and opened up the starboard side where outboards are mounted.

Good Sailing,
Kent </b></font id="blue">

As I remember there weren't too many boats made with the backstay location the same as yours...sorry I didn't get that posted when I received the answer from Kent.

Dan #727

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frog0911
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Response Posted - 01/07/2004 : 00:22:24

Dan, isn't it interesting how over the many years of producing boats that the backstay location has gone full circle back to it's original location on the first boats produced. As the saying says, "what goes around comes around" so I guess we should not be suprised at anything that happens.

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