Rigging & Furling Gear

Single Spreader plus Diamonds

Standing Rigging.  Masthead rig, with forestay, backstay, cap shrouds, forward and aft lower shrouds.  Also baby stay that can be moved forward to another chainplate (bolted to crash bulkhead) to make up an inner-forestay.  All stays 5/16”, 1x19, stainless steel wire, last replaced in 2001.  Baby stay ¼”, jumper stays 3/16''.  Terminals are Sta Lok (the same brand as used on Clipper yachts sailing in round-the-world races) except for fitting on furler which is Norseman.  Both Sta Lok and Norseman fittings can be reused and very user friendly making it possible to replace without any specialist swaging tools.  I carried a complete set of unused ‘cones’ for each fitting so it only requires purchase of new wire to replace standing rigging.  2x heavy duty spinnaker poles mounted on deck.



Cockpit

 Running Rigging.  8xhalyards: 2xjib, 2xspinnaker, 2xspinnaker pole topping lifts and/or staysail halyards, 1xmainsail and boom topping lift/spare main halyard.  2xgenoa sheets.  2x spectra spinnaker sheets/guys.  2x spinnaker downhaul lines.  2x blocks on deck just aft of anchor locker for spinnaker pole downhauls.

Furler.  Harken furling/reefing gear on forestay, foil has twin tracks.  With furling drum removed boat is set up for racing allowing replacement sail to be raised before taking down sail being replaced. 

Harken Furler & Anchor Locker

4x headsails fitted with luff tape provide redundancy in event of damage to other sails and also more flexibility for better performance when racing. 

#2 genoa and #1 jib utilize Spectra strops so upper furling swivel reaches top of mast enabling sails to reef/furl efficiently.