Chuck and Graham, Thanks for your reply.I do have a inner headstay which attaches between the mast and the forward hatch. I defiinitely have the runners, which are made of rope. High tensile I hope. I read up on them last night. There is no blocking system set up on the boat for the runners. I have read where some people attach to the toe rail all the way back near the stearn. My boat has large padeyes on each side of the deck about mid cabin. I assume this is where the runners would attach. I will learn how to ajust these as I go.
The Isomat mast is pretty bendy. From the look of it, I am not t sure I would feel good about climbing up there myself (230 lb.), which is a shame becaue my mastead light isn't working. I bought the boat with the mast stepped already. Hoping to wait til next fall to take it down. Surveyor thought the rod rigging looked good. Thanks. David On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 9:51 PM CHARLES SCHEAFFER <cscheaf...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi David, > My boat has both runners and checkstays but I have a bendy rig on a C&C > 34R. > Not sure my experience applies to your boat. > > Saildata shows the 35 MkIII without runners. > https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/cc-35-3 > > Do you possibly have an inner headstay, (Solent) and the running backstays > are meant to support that? > > Chuck Scheaffer, Resolute 1989 C&C 34R, Pasadena Md > > > On June 7, 2020 at 8:01 PM David Swensen via CnC-List < > cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > I am ticking away at the list of to-dos in order to get Freya off of the > hard and in the water. Thoughts have gone to actually sailing her and not > just all the things that need to be done to a boat that was left on the > hard and forgotten for a few years. > In looking at the rigging today, I was reminded that Freya has a set of > running backstays. The previous owners raced her. I haven't sailed with > running backstays since our old family Narrasketuck on the Great South Bay. > Does anyone use these? If so, do you have a picture of how they are set up > on the deck? Can I safely sail without them? > Thanks for any input. > David Swensen > > _______________________________________________ > > 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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