I'm having my rig inspected in a couple of weeks. I'm concerned about the tangs and since I've been reading the emails about rod rigging in the past few days I was starting to get nervous about the rest of the rig. I hope it'll get a clean bill of health though I suspect the tangs will need attention. Is that an expensive thing to deal with?
Steve Suhana, C&C 32 Toronto On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Jean-Francois J Rivard <[email protected] > wrote: > Before I bought my boat I read all the internet folklore about rod vs wire > and how rod fails without warning, needs to be re-headed every 10 years, > etc, etc, etc.. Same story on the cored hulls below the water line vs > non-cored and all the attendant horror stories of rotten wood incapsulated > in a now worthless blister ridden hull, etc,etc.. And I was getting a > little dis-couraged about buying this awesome C&C boat I currently own. > > Until I talked to experts that have worked cored hulls for 30 years and > certified Navtec riggers with the same kind of experience. > > The fact is: That after a complete strip to the gelcoat and analysis, my > 24 year old boat has not one single blister, shows no signs of water > intrusion, and the boat is stiff as they come and lightweight like it's > supposed to be. > > Likewise, my 24 year old rod rigging is still of smaller diameter, > lighter, and stiffer than a comparable wire rigging. As per professional > Navtec certified rigger advice: It needs no re-heading or other extensive > maintenance. > > My Navtec certified rigger (and 20+ years rod rigging boat owner) gave me > an assessment of what I have, with actual ways of determining undue stress, > and told me we're just fine. He raced his Navtec rod equipped J boat > hard for 15 + years in a salt water environment with nominal maintenance > and, being a rigger he took down his rig for a destructive test of the > heads and had the rods re-headed. Final verdict: (His words) it was a > complete waste of time and money. Keep in mind his rods were far from > pristine. As mentioned the boat was ridden hard and put away wet for 15 + > racing season on the Georgia coast , the rods were showing a fair amount of > surface corrosion, and "Other signs of imminent doom" yet when the chips > were down and the rods were cut and analyzed, they were as strong as the > day they came out of the Navtec factory. > > His words: If you are going for a transatlantic crossing or > circumnavigation, then it's probably not a bad idea to err on the side of > caution but for the rest of us coastal cruisers and lake cruisers you just > don't put enough stress on those rods to really challenge them. > > Additional Anectodal evidence: My rigger who's been working the lake for > 30 + years has never seen a rod rigging failure on this lake. Period. > > Simple test: If your turnbuckles are smooth and bind free / the ball > pivots on the mast are smooth, that's pretty god evidence that the rods > have not been overly stressed. > > > No offense to anyone but : Before you decide to purchase / not purchase > a boat or spend serious money on a rig the best thing to do is talk to a > professional rigger instead of hearsay on the internet.. > > > -Francois > 1990 C&C 34+ "Take Five" > Lake Lanier, Georgia. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > [email protected] > >
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