David, I had the same problems when I bought our current C&C 37, circa 1982. For me at least it involved a good bit more than re-heading the rod. If you have the same style Navtec rod ends and tangs that I did which may be likely given the age of our boats then you may be in for a bit more that just re-heading the rod.
As regards my spreaders, the tips were fine but the root/base of each were worn away to the point that you could grab the shrouds and pull them fore and aft a good foot. Or better. The riggers simply hell-arc’d new aluminum and drilled new pivot holes and we were off to the races. Well, docks maybe. Anyway, don’t know if that is a solution for the tips but worth a talk with the riggers. For the standing rigging, my Navtec tangs were the old “Frankenstein neck plug” style, comprised of stainless steel heads screwed to an aluminum through bolt/rod. As related to me by the riggers, these were supposed to move to allow some fore and aft movement. Over time because of the interaction of the stainless and aluminum they seized up. As a result of that the tangs began to cut into the head of the rod ends. We replaced all the tangs with the newer style stemball and stemball tang technology. That was 13 years ago and I don’t have any distinct cost numbers available for that work and they wouldn’t be useful by now anyway given inflation. As Joel said, there are other options. When I added roller furling at the same time, I opted to go with wire rigging for the forestay. Hope that helps. Best, Dave 1982 C&C 37 - Ronin On Nov 27, 2013, at 11:49 AM, David Folsom <dfolsom...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am looking at redoing my rod rigging in the next few months. I know this > topic has been discussed in the past, but I would appreciate your input. > > > My upper spreaders are badly corroded at the tip- and so I am going to > replace them. Does anybody have suggestions for where I can obtain just the > tips? or do I have to replace the entire spreaders? > > I am also considering re-heading most of the rod, rather than replacing, as I > can't afford to replace it all at this time. Does anyone have experience with > getting the rod re-headed rather than replaced? I think I will have to > replace the upper diagonal and the shroud that goes from the lower spreader > to the top of the mast. I would then re-head the backstay, and the lower > shroud and lower diagonal. The forestay is new. > > Does anyone have experience with replacing the mast fittings? I understand > the fittings that were originally used are now considered obsolete. > > Finally, how much did people spend on their replacing the rod rigging? > > thanks again for the helpful advice > > David Folsom > Rebel Maid, 1981 C&C 36 > San Diego > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
