A good way to measure is to use bailing wire. obviously it's not strong enough to go for a trial sail, but it's cheep and will allow you to measure accurately. -----Original Message----- From: John Schinnerer Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 12:46 PM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: Bow pulpit. My boat did not come with a bow pulpit. Is there any resource for getting one made or used. On 06/19/2018 04:01 PM, Gary Oberbeck via montgomery_boats wrote:
Jason, Consider figuring the length of your rigging to include toggles for the shrouds - no real need for them on the stays.
Regardless of what doodads you have on the ends, this is the tricky part of measuring - making sure you don't mess up by not calculating correctly for existing hardware at the ends. For example if you're ordering a piece that will go from mast-head attachment point to a stud that threads into your existing turnbuckle at the bottom - my case when ordering a new backstay - you have to make very sure to calculate correctly the finished length of the new assembly with the stud threaded ~halfway into the turnbuckle on both sides. If you know what hardware you are going to need at each end and have the measurement, then you just tell the rigger what goes on each end and what the pin to pin or pin to end of stud (or whatever you've got at the ends) length is, and they make it so. cheers, John -- John Schinnerer - M.A., Whole Systems Design -------------------------------------------- - Eco-Living - Whole Systems Design Services People - Place - Learning - Integration john@eco-living.net - 510.982.1334 http://eco-living.net http://sociocracyconsulting.com