Loos company argues that a loose rig is more likely to damage the boat than a properly tightened one due to shock loading. Without an adjustable backstay you're forced to either keep the rig tight in preparation for max wind or loose to avoid stress while the boat is idle. Or I guess compromise. I don't race and we're almost always double handing with multiple unknowing, unskilled, and uninvolved passengers. I have 3 basic pressures that I apply.
~500 psi - idle boat stored in the slip, backstay is just taught and not slack or sloppy. ~1000 psi - normal sailing up to about 10 kts of wind ~2500 psi - winds above 10 kts, this could get spicy and I don't want to have to remember the stupid backstay. The headsail furler works considerably better with a tight rig and definitely tells me when I've forgotten to pump it up...whether or not I realize what it is telling me is a different story. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Fri, Aug 3, 2018, 10:21 AM Gary Russell via CnC-List < [email protected]> wrote: > Tom, > The back stay with baby stay make a dramatic difference in the > handling and performance of the boat upwind when it starts to blow. I do > agree that the absence of the back stay adjuster reduces stress on the rig > and the captain. I can't imagine the chaos if the back stay attachments > failed. > > Gary > S/V Kaylarah > '90 C&C 37+ > East Greenwich, RI, USA > > ~~~~~~~_/)~~~~~~ > > > On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 9:27 AM, Tom Buscaglia via CnC-List < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Alera has no backstay tensioner at all. We cruise so it’s not an issue >> and considering the issues re the attachment points I okay with that. >> >> Tom Buscaglia >> S/V Alera >> 1990 C&C 37+/40 >> Vashon WA >> P 206.463.9200 >> C 305.409.3660 >> >> >> On Aug 3, 2018, at 4:59 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 22:07:57 -0300 >> From: Ken Heaton <[email protected]> >> To: cnc-list <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Stus-List 37+ Backstay tension >> Message-ID: >> <caabfp6tsby_deedexfag-w0ygnchaftewbeghg1u+0of+cg...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Interesting. All parts of our backstay are rod, the double lowers and the >> single upper. The upper is a larger diameter (as you would expect). Two >> hydraulic rams, one each side. >> >> Some of you have wire for the lower section? >> >> Ken Heaton & Anne Tobin >> S/V Salazar - Can 54955 >> C&C 37/40 XL - Hull # 67 >> Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia >> >> https://c-c-37-40.blogspot.ca/p/salazar.html >> >> >> >> On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 at 22:02, Gary Russell via CnC-List < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each >> and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - >> use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - > use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > >
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