mast head jumper arrangements
Can anyone tell me how to tune a mast head 'jumper stay' arrangement standing rigging, and where in the sequence of rig tuning do you tension the 'jumper stays' (first / last etc).
Usually the struts are angled forward so I would have thought that if you tensioned the 'jumper stay' wires, then you would put negitive bend into the top of the mast.
On a Westerly 33 Ketch mizzen mast, there doesen't seem to be a backstay counteracting the induced negative bend of the 'jumper stays'.
Can anybody advice with the tuning on this yacht.
Thanks
Tim
|