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loose shrouds?

28th March 2010

Andrew Smith

28th March 2010 at 7:59 PM

First proper sail on my new Sonata today. Great fun and well balanced in 15+kts of steady breeze. I had recently tensioned the shrouds (using a Loos gauge) as per the Goacher tuning guide. So I was surprised to find that the leeward shrouds were quite slack going upwind.

QUESTION: Is this normal. On other boats I would add tension on both sides until the leeward shrouds were hand tight. What should I do?

Andrew Martland

30th March 2010 at 2:23 PM

Hi Andrew

I sail on BOB out of Whitby and we find that the leeward shrouds go loose

When you are looking at 15 knots of wind there is a lot of pressure on the windward ones.

We tie a small piece of para cord between the turn buckles to stop them turning when loose, recking you settings

Hope this helps

Andy

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