Rig Tension
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Fred Chadsey
- Posts: 49
- Joined: Fri Oct 17, 2003 5:43 pm
- Location: gulf shores, al.
tuning guide
I noticed everyone is requesting tuning guides, I too would like one, but why not post it in this forum and heading ? I know we'd all greatly appreciate it !!!
S2 7.9 hull # 467
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Spike Boston
- Posts: 115
- Joined: Thu Jan 16, 2003 2:03 pm
tuning guide
We can send you a tuning guide. Post or email us your email address. Spike Boston
same
Everyone, please remember that a "tuning guide" is just that, it's not the bible. I have seen countless sailors spend hours at the dock or on the trailor "tuning" there mast to the guide and then NEVER look up the rig once under way. You CAN"T tune a mast unless the rig is under load, sailing upwind. The goal is to get the mast to look the same on both tacks while sighting up the luff groove from the aft side, and hopefully to get the same boatspeed on both tacks, but that involves more than the mast. All boats are different. Some designs are faster with the gooseneck/spreader bracket/hounds in line, some faster with the spreader bracket sagging slighly to leeward and some with the spreader bracket pulled [way] to weather. Also, it's almost always best to tune to the lighter side of what's expected as far as wind is comcerned. If the rig is too tight you will be missing the low gears that are needed to punch out of tacks, through boat wakes, etc. You can always get less headstay sag just by putting on more backstay, if needed. The opposite is not the case if you start with the rig too tight to begin with.
Dave
Dave
I received Spike Bostons tuning guide earlier this year. I tuned my boat to the medium air setting as he suggested. I increased my forestay 4" to the class maximum. I tried to implement all his suggestions. I came in first in my class and 2 overall in my local handicap racing. Having the only 7.9 on this lake "Odyssey" is turning a lot of heads.
Thank you Spike!
Thank you Spike!
Stef
Odyssey #146
Odyssey #146