A couple of summers ago, while sailing in significant slop and 16 to 20 knot winds on Pamlico Sound, I heard a sound like a shot from a .22 and thought "Crap, something just broke!"
The jump stay waving back and forth and banging into the mast certainly elevated the priority on the inspection I had wanted to give the rod rigging before going cruising. Was able to buy some replacement turnbuckle thimbles from Navtec to do temporary repairs and deliver the boat to the rigger. Navtec told me that for my 30 year old rod rigging, I should remove all the rod, ship it to them for nondestructive testing and to have the ends x-rayed, and they would rehead or replace as needed. When I talked to my rigger, the cost of new wire rigging was about a grand less than the cost of removal, shipping, and testing of the rod rigging. That's without reheading or replacing anything. I ended up using Dyform wire instead of conventional wire. The strand of Dyform wire are sort of pie shaped, so they pack metal into a smaller cross section than regular wire made of round strands. My Dyform rigging is only about 1/16th inch larger in diameter than the #10 rod, but actually about 1000 pounds greater tensile strength. Rigger used crimp fittings for the upper ends of the wires that attach to the existing mast tangs with the same sort of ball joints used for rod rigging, and used crimp on turnbuckles that are comparable to the ones used for the spreader tips on rod rigging. Lower end of each wire was cut to length at the boat and Norseman fittings were used to facilitate installation of shrouds and stays. If I had to do it again, I'd do the same thing. My rig is stronger than rod, it's new, it has almost the same weight and wind resistance as the old rod, and I saved at least a grand. I' a happy camper. Rick Brass C&C 38 Imzadi Washington, NC Sent from my iPad > On Apr 9, 2014, at 23:56, CATHY DE PONT <reiddep...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > Greetings: > For a 1988 C and C Mk2, the cost to replace the original rod rigging is about > $2000 more than switching to wire. > Has anyone had to make this decision and if you went the wire route are there > any regrets? > Are there any other pros and cons? > This is a cruising boat so speed is not critical. > > Many thanks, > Gordon on Lorikeet based in Sidney, BC, Canada > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
