Garhauer rigid vang is $400-$500, not $1200. I have one on my 27-5 and
it is perfect. Garhauer is a great company to deal with, and their stuff
is very high quality.
Bill Bina
On 3/4/2015 10:04 AM, Hoyt, Mike via CnC-List wrote:
Peter
Consider a Boom kicker in conjunction with your soft vang as another
option. Plan on $300 brand new. On our J-27 I opted for a US Spars
rigid vang for $400 new. I gave away my rope vang and blocks (the
fiddle block was 1 year old) when I added this. Most of the J27 fleet
went with the boomkicker. The US Spars vang includes line and blocks
attached to vang. After the first year I decided I did not like this
arrangement and added a rope vang with new blocks in addition to the
rigid vang and was happy with that. Took the price up close to $200.
I likely should have gone with the boomkicker.
The C&C 27 is a fairly small boat with a much smaller sail plan that
the J27 and of course much smaller than C&C 30. The arrangements
described above would work well on your 27. The only thing I was less
satisfied with on the US Spars rigid vang was the boom attachment
which is a bit lighter weight than I would like. However again the
C&C 27 has a smaller sail plan and less pressures than the J27.
Unfortunately I do not have pictures.
The weakness of the boom end attachment for the US Spars vang was that
it only had 2 rivets and with the blocks on the rigid vang itself
there was tremendous pressure on those rivets when vang on tight.
With the rigid vang being used for upward pressure and a traditional
rope and block vang for downward pressure and attached at the bail on
the boom as designed this pressure is gone.
I do hope this helps. A $1200 rigid vang is very much overkill on a
27. Buy something new for $400 or less
Mike
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