[MHml] mast woes

[Glenn Brodie]

Bill

So how did you rig an effective "slack sucker"? I have been trying to
figure this out and have attempted a number of options, but none seem to
work too well although they are better than nothing. I have essentially
2 stays coming to the same point that flop around and whack each other
on the leeward side. Sounds like a Star Wars movie when it is blowing
pretty well.

Glenn 
Indigo
-----Original Message-----
From: multihulls-bounces at steamradio.com
[mailto:multihulls-bounces at steamradio.com] On Behalf Of Bill Gibbs
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 4:14 PM
To: 'Informed discussion of multihull issues'
Subject: Re: [MHml] mast woes

The riggers and mast guy explain that one goal in pre-tensioning
diamonds is to avoid a slack side.  And I have never noticed slack
diamonds on Afterburner.  Certainly there is a loaded and unloaded side.
My stays are a different story.  We even have a "slack sucker" for the
stays.

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: multihulls-bounces at steamradio.com
[mailto:multihulls-bounces at steamradio.com] On Behalf Of Chris Ostlind
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 12:02 PM
To: Informed discussion of multihull issues
Subject: Re: [MHml] mast woes


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Gibbs" <BillG at GibbsCAM.com>


 We are not looking for prebend however, as much as avoiding slack
diamonds 
on the unloaded side.


 Slack diamonds as in: Not able to slip their fixturing points on the 
spreaders, or what?  How do you avoid any slack side diamonds, Bill? If
the 
leeward shrouds are somewhat slack, aren't the leeward diamonds also
slack 
to some lesser degree as well?

I guess what I'm saying is that the load has to go somewhere, and if it 
isn't in the rig, it has to be put through the forward beam. I could be
way 
off base here, but I suspect that all these components are stretching
and 
flexing to some extent and they relieve the direct loadings in that 
adaptable fashion.

Chris


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