do spars and booms ever come with instruction maunals?

[pyrofly73]

This is probably the dumbest question ever asked in this forum i know..... I'm just getting a little bothered by the information,or lack of, I'm finding out there. I have an Isomat NG60 mast and an NB40 boom. I have been looking in vain for a manual or drawings from the them and zilch. zilch isn't exactly true I get RIGRITE lots and lots of RIGRITE. I called them a few minutes ago simple question pertaining to sheave size for slab furling setup and felt like the person on the other end of the line was more clueless than myself. Is that possible? If there is no manual out there is there anyone out there very familiar with these masts and booms and reefing systems that could spend maybe 10 minutes on the phone with me. I wish this was a replacement part, but believe it or not this mast has been sitting in a warehouse for 20 years and is now finally being rigged by a complete novice. Needless to say a few little things are missing.

Thanks

Xavier.

[Brion Toss]

Hello,
First, congratulations on unearthing your spars. I don't know where you'd go for drawings, let alone a manual, but perhaps someone else here does. Meanwhile this sounds like the kind of thing where general rigging knowledge will be at least as valuable as technical data. Where is the boat?
Fair leads,
Brion Toss

[pyrofly73]

Thanks for the reply Brion!!

The boat is in Miami, FL.

Now for the other good stuff.

The boat that the Isomat spar is now proudly standing on is a Creekmore. These boats, I have found out, were very limited in there numbers and sold as shells so they are all very customized in other words no two are the same. Lee Creekmore was the designer and has been of absolutely no help it seems he is no longer is in the boat building industry and basically seems to want to be left in peace. The good part. comes from the fact that I met a Gentleman (Skeet Perry) who is the Guru Jedi Master of these boats. He is a little too "High Tech" for my tastes, but thats besides the point. He is helping me with a lot of the little questions, as is the sail maker, Tom Breneman.

My role is that of a sponge. I talk to them and try to soak it all up. I then execute with precision everything that we talked about.

I don't consider myself your average boat owner because I am basically building this boat up from just an empty hull, unfortunately my field is that of marine electronics and the rigging although pretty mechanical and straight forward lacks all the manuals and details that I'm so used to finding easily for most electronics.

I know the basics. I've read your book. I feel at ease with what I'm doing, but hell if I want to put an Isomat Auto reefing/slab reefing) on this boom with internal shuttle blocks etc. I should be able to find a picture somewhere that has each item labeled with a parts list of sizes etc. so that i don't have to stick calipers into the gooseneck and eyeball what the lower sheave size is.

Am I making any sense?

Xavier

[Brian Duff]

manuals for spars are rare, selden is pretty good about providing information, but that probably wont help you.

call a rigger- most should know a ton about Isomat spars, they are on a lot of boats. Most riggers will have lots of time to just talk to you about spars, as we are all boat nerds and get off on knowing about this stuff (were here on a forum afterall) - try Calling Brion Toss Yacht Riggers, 360-385-1080 , they offer perhaps the most informed consultation services you could hope for.

The folks that run rigrite know a ton about boats and rigging, but sometimes Kim has retail sales people that just run partnumbers and credit cards.

Also, check Zephyrwerks.com for better sheaves than Isomat ever sold, at a very resonable price. Ed produces a beautiful and strong sheave that we now use almost exclusivly for replacemets and new contruction of spars , and I bet Brion does too... ?