Yesterday the crew (Glenn Gambel from the list and two other friends)
and I brought Corsair (Redwing 35) from South Haven, Michigan up the
lake to White Lake, Michigan. A run of 69 nm. We ended up motoring the
entire distance. I have sailed on Lake Michigan for 24 years and have
been
Ryan,
The purpose of the fuse on the battery terminal is to protect the wire (and
switches, etc) that runs from the battery to the panel. This fuse should be
sized appropriately by the wire size. For example, My house bank uses 6 ga
wire to feed the panel, so I have a 100 amp fuse on it. No
Ryan,
Select the fuse for the wire, not for the load.
I would put a 150 A - 200 A fuse on the starter wire (it is probably a 4 ga
or better). Btw, these fuses can easily work through some higher current
(even 50% higher) for a short while, so possibly a 100 A fuse would be fine.
On the house
The babystay doesn't go slack. The whole mast moves back, but more at the
top than at the middle. If you want to see the effect of tightening the
backstay, look at the forestay, and sight up the mast from the side while
the backstay is not tensioned too tight. Then run a weighted line (or even
Sam, like you said, the mast is more or less fixed, but not completely. As you
decrease backstay length the mast has two motions, bending and rotating from
the deck pivot point. As it rotates (pivots) backward it tightens the
forestay. That's about all I get with my tree trunk of a mast; no
Hey guys,
My 1976 30mki did not come with fuses at the battery terminals and I would like
to add them.
I have a simple system with two batteries - one starting and one house.
My house loads if I'm running the autopilot and I have every blower and fan and
led light on and add up to 12.3 amps.
My “man-cation" is during that timeframe. I’m trying to decide if I want to
single hand each way from the Chesapeake. I charted it out last night at
around 325 miles if I take the narrows into LIS.
Rick Bushie
1971 30-1
Tolchester, MD
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Jake, Sam,
I saw a substantial increase in mast bend when using the baby stay in
addition to the backstay over just the backstay on my prior 35-3. My sails
were designed for that full mast bend, so worth checking out at the dock.
Regards,
Tim
ex-Mojito
On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Jake
Sam,
I usually tension the backstay first and have never noticed a problem with
slack in the babystay. We don’t use the baby stay much, as the winds here tend
to be light. The babystay doesn’t really pull at an effective angle to
generate much mast bend either. It does stabilize the
