I think some people (riggers) make a mountain out of a molehill. As I mentioned here some time ago, one of the Annapolis riggers told me how hard it was to get a kevlar backstay,, and then proceeded to rip me off to the tune of 1800 bucks. Then I went to the boat show, and discovered from the nice fellow from Hayn Marine that the backstay was readily available. I had a new one in a couple weeks. They also have all the old Navtec fittings, balls, etc. Navtec.com. If you have a C&C, you know how to work-around. hard to source parts! If a boat was in the tropics for a long time, I would certainly check the rigging out carefully. I bought a boat that had been in the Caribbean for many years, but always stored half a year out of water, and very well taken care of. When I bought it, I had pulled the mast at Jabins, brought all the rod home on a trailer and checked it all out. .Cleaned, examined, passivated and buffed all the ends, even ran most of the rods that had residual curve in them through straighteners to take most of the cast out of them. I feel very confident in the rig. And I even had to make tooling to re-head the D1 shroud that I inadvertently ground the head off by dragging it on the pavement! I'll send you the catalog.
Bill Coleman Entrada, Erie PA On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 11:55 AM Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > What I got was they didn’t think they could get the rigging apart to check > it without damaging the fittings that may not even be available anymore. > > > > *Joe Della Barba* > > > > > > *From:* Robert Abbott via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > *Sent:* Friday, December 13, 2024 4:43 PM > *To:* cnc-list@cnc-list.com > *Cc:* Robert Abbott <robertabb...@eastlink.ca> > *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Re: old rod rigging > > > > Joe > Just as a follow up, my rigger is also an accomplished sailor with a lot > of sailing experience....not just a guy that got into the rigging > business....he sailed in the Olympics, and in 1977 and 1980 won the world > soling championships with Glen Dexter and Andreas Jonenhans. > He has an excellent reputation here as a rigger....I would like to believe > he understands the rigging business. > > Rob > > On 2024-12-13 4:10 p.m., Robert Abbott via CnC-List wrote: > > Well, if your local rigging guy is correct, then there should have been > and/or is going to be a lot of rod rigging failures in my area. appreciated. > >
Your contributions help pay the fees associated with this list and help to keep it active. Please help by making a small contribution using PayPal at: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/stumurray All contributions are greatly appreciated.
