Is this OK?

[SailDog]

Is this OK? While raising the mast in the driveway and found the Nicopress Eye a little bent and worn.



I know this is a loaded question, but is that OK for now?

[NiceAft]

I don't see any problem with it. How old is the boat? Did you do some trailering recently? How tight are your stays?

Ray

[SailDog]

It's an '01. We picked it up and Maine and trailered to NH on Tuesday. We went to figure out how to step the mast in the driveway today. Shrouds are taunt. Mast has about a 3" bend judging from the Main Halyard, and the rake although hard to judge on the trailer looks close to 94deg.

The cable is just a little bent at the thimble and I thought it would be a good idea to get a more seasoned eye on it. Thanks for lookin'.

[Kelly Hanson East]

A little bending is ok. You want to look as well as you can into the swages for signs of separation of the shroud strands - if I even see one on a piece of standing rigging, I replace it. Havent see one yet on my 2002

[Frank C]

SailDog ... you should add your boat/motor info into your Profile, after your Location (see mine to left).

. . . Mast has about a 3" bend judging from the Main Halyard, and the rake although hard to judge on the trailer looks close to 94deg.

I'm not sure about the "greater sailing world" but here in Macville we'd usually describe that differently. Roger's standard mast rake with factory rigging is 4 degrees aft, or 86 degrees off the aft deck (granting the corollary, that's 94 degrees off the foredeck ). I replaced my forestay, having it shortened by exactly 4 inches, yielding a 2-degree aft rake.

[SailDog]

Thanks, I've appended my profile.

As for the rake angle, I was just parroting what I saw in the manual...



Thanks again.

[tangentair]

. . . Mast has about a 3" bend judging from the Main Halyard, and the rake although hard to judge on the trailer looks close to 94deg.

At the beginning of this season (or at least when I got the time), I parked my trailer in the front driveway to raise the mast - becuse when my sons helped me store the boat last winter they "completely" disassembled the rigging from the mast for storage. So I was wondering also on how to check things accurately - my drive way slopes in several directions. Here is what I did, I found a piece of old flexable tubing - from a ice maker - and bought a bottle of food coloring. I taped the tubing about where the mast steps to each side of the boat and add colored water so that the water level was close to the water line stripe on both sides. Then I raised the low side up until the distance from the top of the stripe to the water level was the same on both sides - I lowered the bow and blocked behind the wheel and then raised it back to eye level. I then used the "water level" to level it fore and aft. Blocks under the trailer frame made the whole thing solid. The whole proceedure took longer than it should but I had to explain the "physics" to my 14 yr old as we went along. Back before there where laser levels, and transits where to much trouble to set up, this is how we hung the ceiling rails for X-ray machines. Anyway if you want to level your water line stripe, simply and quickly, this will do it. As for your rigging, I have a 360 level, but this time I just hung a fishing weight on the main halyard to get things "close enough".