Bob, In your situation I would say that you will probably not regret keeping the turnbuckle as loose as possible. Of course if you have to tighten it, it is not impossible. You should make sure that both halves of the turnbuckle are equally and fully engaged. Y fully engaged I mean that the end of each shank should be at least flush with the inner opening of the turnbuckle. Many turnbuckles require a pin or ring to prevent loosening but since this is in the furler there may be a different mechanism. Make sure that the engagement is sufficient for whatever security measures is used. When tightening, lubricate the threads first and be especially careful not to let the stay twist. IIRC lonseal is recommended by Navtec but gray anti-seize or tef-gel are perfectly good alternatives.
Before calling it set make sure that the wedges in the collar still fit and that the mast is not riding on the collar/partners. Double check that the side stays, back stay and baby stay all have sufficient adjustment remaining and re-adjust (tighten) the headstay as needed. Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD On Mon, Mar 15, 2021, 17:38 Bob Mann via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > So with no sails on, the forestay should be slack? How much? > > Backstay will tighten the forestay and this should be adjusted during > sailing, but how slack is it? I have a turnbuckle on my forestay, inside > the furler. I've tightened it in the past but I don't know what I'm doing. > > Bob > > On 03/15/2021 5:09 PM David Knecht via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Bob- Forestay tension is set primarily by backstay tension, so there is > no “tension setting”. AFAIK Dave > > > On Mar 15, 2021, at 3:07 PM, Bob Mann via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > wrote: > When stepping the mast, how tight should the forestay be? > > Bob Mann > Mystic > 71' 35 mk I > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with > the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks > - Stu > > > David Knecht > S/V Aries > 1990 C&C 34+ > New London, CT > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with > the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - > Stu > > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with > the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks > - Stu
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