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Forum: General Sailing Forum

12-10-2015, 03:35

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Could you install double sets of stays and shrouds?

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Posted By GILow

Re: Could you install double sets of stays and shrouds?

I confess, I have never felt the slightest urge to be an adventurer, that is, until the moment I stood in front of that boat. Then I had the most overwhelming desire to drop everything and just go....

Forum: General Sailing Forum

12-10-2015, 03:15

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Could you install double sets of stays and shrouds?

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Posted By GILow

Re: Could you install double sets of stays and shrouds?

From my memory of visiting the boat in Freemantle one of the forestays had also broken, but I think this occurred in some kind of collision. The pulpit was badly damaged and the forestay had been...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

11-10-2015, 22:39

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Could you install double sets of stays and shrouds?

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Posted By GILow

Re: Could you install double sets of stays and shrouds?

In reference to the points made above, particularly re twin forestays:

We have twin forestays that are not side by side but one in front of the other. Not solent-style, but parallel the whole...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

11-10-2015, 04:11

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Could you install double sets of stays and shrouds?

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Posted By GILow

Re: Could you install double sets of stays and shrouds?

Yes, this describes our rig. And the bit that slightly bothers me is that with all this reinforcing the ONLY bit that is not duplicated in any fashion is the rear stay. And when we run under MPS I...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

10-10-2015, 23:26

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Could you install double sets of stays and shrouds?

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Posted By GILow

Re: Could you install double sets of stays and shrouds?

We have a double forestay setup that gives us good redundancy. Particularly nice when you consider that the self furling foresail foil can hide all sorts of problems if you are not careful.

We...

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