forestay

Vikings, I don't believe that my jib is original to my 1975 E25cb, but I can say that it has been around for a while. It has a wire luff sewn into it. This wire luff is used in an old Schaefer roller furler with a drum at the bottom and a swivel at the top. The original purchase documents that...

Well Blooz Traveler had her first shakedown cruise on our first race of the season. Sailied great but I do have 4 broken wires on my forestay. I do have a profurl roller furling. What is the best resource for finding out the dimension on the forestay to have a new one made up? thanks Thom

I have the orig 1989 Navtec hydraulic backstay, works fine. This is the first time I've had one on a boat, didn't even know there was a # pressure gauge on it :confused:. My slip partner said you should use between 2,000 & 2,500# pressure. Also...I recently had my standing rigging...

I have a 1987 35III which has a hairline crack running around the bow just where the hull to deck joint should be. It's not a big crack; about four inches on each side of the bow (horizontally). The forestay attachment runs right over it. Is this common? It was pointed out to me today by...

I was out sailing on saturday and the wind was blowing 15k and I noticed a good bend on my forestay. I have a roller furling and a 150 genoa attached to this. I finally put a roller furling on my rig after much debate. Just for everybody's info I had a professional do the rig. Is this...

---- of note, I also posted this on the SailJazz mail list, not sure where we have all gone.... please forgive the redundancy -------- OK, I'll say right up front that I am not scared of heights and have gone up the mast on various boats more times than I care to remember. So, with fears...

We are looking to do an upgrade to the rigging that requires an answer to two questions. We would like to add a removeable inner forestay for using a relatively small hank on jib (maybe an 85?) on upwind legs in strong wind -- we live in San Francisco. We would also use this for hanking on a...

Does anyone know the designed forestay diameter for the E39? We are replacing an existing older jib roller furling system that came with our boat. That unit, a Hyde, used a solid extruded aluminum rod with groove in place of a standard wire forestay. The new system will be a Profurl, but we need...