Ericson 38 intermediate shrouds

[Nimue]

Thanks Brion,

As I don't have a forestays'l on the boat at this time and using the boat as a cruiser not racer, I agree that the forces at the intermediates would not approach masthead values. I do however sometimes find myself with main at first reef and genny furled beating into 20 knots or so as our location in Courtenay dictates a north south journey most of the time. As we all know the wind gods always choose to send the breeze from the direction we want to go.
I probably will up the size from 7/16 to 1/4 just to be on the safe side.
I will conduct a load test in the near future to obtain better specs before I re-rig.

Cheers.