Amen to that. I have had the Garhauer rigid vang for many years on my 30-1
(probably one size up from what would work on a 27) and race on a J-80 with a
boomkicker. I find the Garhauer or others like it (raced on another J-80 with a
Harken) to be much easier to use and adjust than the boomkicker. We have to
haul hard to get the boomkicker to adjust and the boom fitting has given us
grief in just two years of use. My Garhauer has had no problems...and has been
raced for over a dozen years.
Gary
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From: Bill Bina - gmail via CnC-List
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: Stus-List Garhauer Rigid Boom Vang
Garhauer rigid vang is $400-$500, not $1200. I have one on my 27-5 and it is
perfect. Garhauer is a great company to deal with, and their stuff is very high
quality.
Bill Bina
On 3/4/2015 10:04 AM, Hoyt, Mike via CnC-List wrote:
Peter
Consider a Boom kicker in conjunction with your soft vang as another
option. Plan on $300 brand new. On our J-27 I opted for a US Spars rigid vang
for $400 new. I gave away my rope vang and blocks (the fiddle block was 1 year
old) when I added this. Most of the J27 fleet went with the boomkicker. The
US Spars vang includes line and blocks attached to vang. After the first year
I decided I did not like this arrangement and added a rope vang with new blocks
in addition to the rigid vang and was happy with that. Took the price up close
to $200. I likely should have gone with the boomkicker.
The C&C 27 is a fairly small boat with a much smaller sail plan that the
J27 and of course much smaller than C&C 30. The arrangements described above
would work well on your 27. The only thing I was less satisfied with on the US
Spars rigid vang was the boom attachment which is a bit lighter weight than I
would like. However again the C&C 27 has a smaller sail plan and less
pressures than the J27.
Unfortunately I do not have pictures.
The weakness of the boom end attachment for the US Spars vang was that it
only had 2 rivets and with the blocks on the rigid vang itself there was
tremendous pressure on those rivets when vang on tight. With the rigid vang
being used for upward pressure and a traditional rope and block vang for
downward pressure and attached at the bail on the boom as designed this
pressure is gone.
I do hope this helps. A $1200 rigid vang is very much overkill on a 27.
Buy something new for $400 or less
Mike
Persistence
Frers 33
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