Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Erection

Last night after work, I made a few minor preparations and Traci and I stepped the mast. We steadied the rig using the jib halyard and two lines from the mast (just above the spreaders) down to the chainplates. I tied a third line above the speaders which I used as a "measuring tape" to ensure that the rig was centered in the middle of the boat.

Once I had the mast positioned where I wanted it, I cut the shrouds to length and attached the Hi-Mod studs. I started with the lowers, then the headstay, then the uppers.



Looks pretty sweet, I think. Hopefully my sailmaker can come by soon to take down some numbers.

8 comments:

Kevin McDaniel said...

Looking very good my friend. I hope that Ryan was able to come over today and get those measurements. We need to get the sails rolling now.

I need to get my step ready.

Cheers, Kevin.

tokyo said...

did you put any rake into the mast before you cut the forestay?? just rake, not pre-bend

Jeff Dalsin said...

There is not much rake in that picture, but when the sailmaker came over yesterday to measure, we put a modest amount of rake in the forestay---1/8 to 1/4 bubble using my 4-foot level. Is it enough? Who knows, but a new headstay would only set me back $30 or so.

tokyo said...

yeah i cant remember how much rake i put in my rig, was just making sure you did put some in though! i have thought about putting some more in to see if we can reduce the submarining in the big swells.

Jeff Dalsin said...

I think the wide angle camera lens is distorting the image there a bit, too.

Bernie Kucharski said...

Looking forward to the finish product and a ride. Nice job Jeff.

Tokyo said...

hey jeff, can you post some pictures of how you did your turnbuckles? did you get them swaged to the wire?

Jeff Dalsin said...

Hi Andrew-

The t-balls were swagged to the wire at the top and I used Hi-Mod mechanical stud at the bottoms.

Jeff
dalsin at tds dot com