Dux rigging and Forestay Tesnsion

[Brian Duff]

Boat sales is going pretty well, but I just miss rigging so much I find myself always talking with folks about it. Thats where i got this one from.

Are you saying that you have found, as long as the loads are 20% of break or less, actual working loads, that NO CREEP is noticed? I didn't find that with the rigs I had a chance to do before leaving... And want to sort it before doing my boat becasue I want to do a swept spreader no backstay set up.

I have always used stainless for the forestays, but have seen on this boat that the sidestays are swept aft (catamaran) and meant to hold forestay tension, but don't seem to. The kit is quite new, two weeks old, so maybe now that the constructional stretch is completely out they can tune the rig and be good, with no tuning required from here on out? That was not the case on the boats I played with, they accepted slack leeward rigging OR frequent tightening of rigging...

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