Peter, unless you sail in a heavy air area, just don't use the baby stay; we
bungee ours to the mast and it makes no difference at all; except that the crew
is a lot less stressed out during tacks....I am confident that if it were
removed, no one would even notice...!
Richard
s/v Bushmark4: 1985 C&C37 CB: Ohio River, Mile 596;
Richard N. Bush Law Offices
2950 Breckenridge Lane, Suite Nine
Louisville, Kentucky 40220-1462
502-584-7255
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter McMinn via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Cc: petemcm...@gmail.com
Sent: Thu, Sep 2, 2021 12:29 am
Subject: Stus-List Baby stay vs new headsail
We’ve been sailing this summer with two exhausted composite headsails (110&125)
purchased with our 37, Sirius.The leeches on both sails reveal a tortured past
with the babystay. With a new Precision tiradial 120 coming over winter, we’re
practicing tacks with no babystay contact, backwinding lightly to pull the sail
over.Improvement needed.For those of you with babystays, what strategies do you
employ to avoid sail contact with the stay and/or minimizing damage?I’ll search
archives, too. Thx
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costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use PayPal to
send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu
