Yikes
Hi again,
No good reason for that bend to be there; you are right, the wire will be constantly trying to tear the spreaders off, and one day they will succeed. Possibly the designer had raked spreaders in mind, possibly the mast was stepped further forward than designed, possibly the chainplates are too far aft.Rake wouldn't affect this. Hmm. No harm in raking those spreaders, I suppose, but no significant benefit either. If you are interested, just pull the forward pin on the current spreader roots, and watch as the spreaders magically line up, showing you a chainplate-compatible rake. Then you could get new spreaders made that conform to the angle. If you want sane athwartships spreaders, you'll need to move the chainplates.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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