Hi All, I had a rigging inspection about a month ago, rigger says everything is fine with the exception of a couple of small things I can sort out myself. Nothing to worry about otherwise. Great I thought....
Mast comes down for the winter up here. This year I removed spreaders and all rigging so I could have this inspection done thoroughly and so I could replace any cotter pins etc. Also easier to store the mast without the spreaders and rod rigging. So I'm putting it all back together yesterday in preparation for crane time on Friday and I notice that the fitting that connects the cap shroud to the spreader is cracked .. I think. I'm going to try to link the images inline, if you don't see them click the links at the end: Um, is this going to be a problem? Looking at it I kind of think yes .. which is a bummer, man <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Vlt-lpVOY>. I'm perplexed that the rigging guy didn't notice it or mention it if he did. Thoughts? I'm thinking that maybe the sawing action of that fitting rubbing against it's neighbours (three pieces of rod come together at the spreader tip on my rig, all the pieces are sandwiched and this guy is in the middle) just caused some scoring, but that it's not a crack. If I thought for sure this was a crack I wouldn't be asking the question. I don't want to shorten our short sailing season and I'de like to get the stick pointing skyward asap. Maybe I should just trust the rigger .. I did email him but so far no response. Thanks, Steve Suhana, C&C 32 http://webspace.ocad.ca/~splavsa/images/Sailing/Rig/1.jpg http://webspace.ocad.ca/~splavsa/images/Sailing/Rig/2.jpg http://webspace.ocad.ca/~splavsa/images/Sailing/Rig/3.jpg http://webspace.ocad.ca/~splavsa/images/Sailing/Rig/4.jpg
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