My mast only has one set of check/running back stays. They are made of 1/4" 1x19 wire rope and stop short of the deck at the mast by about 2 feet. At the deck end there is a eye to which I have 5:1 fiddle blocks with cam cleats and snap shackles that attach to the toe rail. When the boom or mailsail start to press on the stays I use that pressure to unload the tackle in the fiddles. The length of the tackle on the fiddles has been measured to let the boom and mainsail rest on them for broad reaching. If I get even deeper down wind, I have snap shackles on mine which I can use to release the fiddles from the eye and lash the eye to a prestaged anchor. I rarely need to do this since I avoid deep downwind runs if possible.
Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD Jun 20, 2025 15:59:50 Languid Refiner via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>: > When the running backs are not in use (because it would interfere with the > mainsail), where do they go? Do I just tie them to the base of the mast? > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM Ken Heaton <kenhea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Page 61? (The C&C 37/40 Sail Plan) of the 37/40 Owner's Manual shows them >> faintly. In this drawing it shows the Running Back and Checkstays meeting >> at approximately the end of the boom (but are not attached to the boom), >> then continuing to the blocks on the toerail at the stern. >> >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7X4Y5iVFYAKV09MQTZmSzlxejA/view?resourcekey=0-CSGcNyb4w0UcN49EypcO8w
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