Spin Halyard crane upgrade

[buchhla]

Thanks, that makes this even easy! I agree, for extended offshore cruising it may make sense to rehoist the kite, but coming from the racnig side, my mind doesn't even think that way!

One other question, having had to fix the forestay on another boat last summer sailing back from hawaii, I want to make sure my refit doesn't ahve similar problems. Since the masthead fitting on my mast (either NG70 or 80, not positive) uses stemball fittings for all the standing rigging, do I need to worry about lateral movement like I would if it a eye fitting/fork/tang type arrangment? I looks like there is some amount of movement designed into this fitting, but is it enough, or is this somethign else I should worry about? I am thinking of going hayne fittings for everything, do they make a stemball fitting I could use for this, or do I need to go with a mechanical swage?

Thanks again...

[Matthew Sebring]

Originally Posted by buchhla

I am thinking of going hayne fittings for everything, do they make a stemball fitting I could use for this, or do I need to go with a mechanical swage?
Thanks again...

So far as I can tell, Hi-mod (hayn) doesn't make a T or stemball fitting. Navtec (norseman) does though. And I'm with you on the Racing mind-set, I just wanted to mention dropping the kite because you'd specifically talked about extended cruising.

[buchhla]

I am finally putting together my rigging plan for my pretorien. I have a Isomat NG70 mast section with the factory masthead unit which uses stemball fittings for the all of the stays. My question is that the forestay does not have any toggles installed. I also have a profurl R42 furling unit on it. My worries is that although the stemball theoretically has some movement, it would not be adequate to prevent premature stay wear. My current stay has broke strand at the stemball fitting which may have been caused by this. There is about 7 inches of space between the bottom of the fitting to where the wrapstop for the furling unit goes, so does it make sense to install a stemball eye with a swaged fork connecting to it? Since the stemball isn't permanently attached though, would this even make a difference since it could rotate out of position? The backstay has a double fork to allow for more movement, but I am not sure if there is a enough room for that up front.

Any ideas? The original setup has many ocean voyages on it, so it can't be that far off, just want to make sure that I do the replacement right!

[Bob Pingel]

I'd pop a stemball eye up there, and a toggle jaw on the top of the stay. You'll eat up a little room, but you'll get the movement you need.

Bob