Peter,
A very good option would be install a hinged vang bracket near the bottom of
your mast. Garhauer makes these for their rigid boom vangs and will custom
make one to fit your mast. Their pricing is fairly reasonable.
Dennis C.
Touche' 35-1 #83
Mandeville, LA
>________________________________
> From: Peter Fell <[email protected]>
>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 9:18 PM
>Subject: Stus-List Boom Vang for C&C 27 Mk III
>
>
>
>My C&C 27 has a mast-step that looks like this:
>
>http://imageshack.us/a/img191/407/ubt7.jpg
>
>The previous owner had attached the 4:1 purchase boom vang to the 45 degree
side plate which has resulted in bending the side plate!
>
>It was recommended to me to use a boom/mast bail bolted across the vertical
portion of the mast-step bracket at the aft-most set of holes, with a bolt and
filler ‘tube’ to avoid compressing the mast step bracket. Or to replace the aft
mast-retention pin with the same set-up.
>
>Dimensions of the mast step (‘vertical’ bracket) are:
>
>Outside width = 5 inches
>Inside width = 4-1/4 inches
>Hole diameter = 7/8 inches
>Pin diameter = 5/8 inches
>
>2 problems I am finding:
>
>1) I can’t find a 5-inch wide bail
>2) The larger size bails I have found (maybe 4 inch wide is the largest
I’ve seen?) use a smaller bolt than 5/8 inches and no meat to drill out the
holes in them, so there would be a lot of ‘slop’ there.
>
>I’m also concerned that if the boom vang can bend that mast-step side
plate, what’s it going to do to a side-loaded bail and/or the vertical
mast-step
bracket?
>
>So ... perhaps a mast tang / hound? (much as I hate drilling holes in
the mast ... but multiple holes would spread the load). I have read
somewhere that part of the side of the standard C&C mast section is thicker
which helps with this sort of thing? Can anyone verify? Sorry, didn’t measure
the mast width. There’s also the sail track there that would complicate a tang
/
hound installation.
>
>By the way, the previous owner also bent the heck out of the through-bolt
on the boom bail. I’ve replaced that with a new SS bolt
>
>Thanks!
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