Judy, I just visited your website and something was mentioned about a "self tacking jib". I'm afraid I have never heard that term. How does that work? Dick Schmidt Rush No More C27
--- On Sat, 2/13/10, Judith Blumhorst, DC <[email protected]> wrote: From: Judith Blumhorst, DC <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [IC27A] Stanchions - 10 degrees out To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, February 13, 2010, 5:13 PM HI Michael, I installed new stanchions. See http://www.blumhors t.com/catalina27 /stanchions- 1.htm The deck (on my 1977 boat) has some camber outward at the front of the cockpit and amidships. The OEM gate stanchions had some inward canting to offeset the deck camber. The net effect was that the OEM gate stanchions on my boat were vertical. I used 3 degrees out, for the bow; 3 degrees in for amdiships; and two gates with legs of two degrees inward for the aft gate stanchions I think if you chose 10 degrees outward, they would be be more than 10 degrees off of vertical. They'd be maybe 13-15 degrees out. That's leaning really far outwards. I think they would stick out way too far past the sheerline. 1. I double they would keep anybody onboard. 2. They would get broken if you rafted up. 3. And they would definitely look really weird. Fair winds, Judy B 1977 C27 Tall Rig #2459 "Bijou" http://www.blumhors t.com ____________ _________ _________ __ From: Michael <mlong9...@aol. com> To: ic...@yahoogroups. com Sent: Fri, February 12, 2010 10:08:14 PM Subject: [IC27A] Stanchions - 10 degrees out I was considering changing to the stanchions that go out 10 degrees because of the limited room on the sides, has anyone done this? What are the pros and cons? I'm also going to put fairleads on the starboard stanchions for the furling line so that I'm not always having it roll under my feet when I'm trying to get up on deck. I saw it done on another C27 online and thought it was a great idea and a simple fix to something that is always a subtle annoyance. The boat I saw had the fairleads on the outside but I wouldn't do that, I just want to keep the line off the deck. Any thoughts? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
