Having just brought home my "new to me" M15, I have not yet rigged her (even in the driveway as a trial, learning run). I notice that my side stays and forestay terminate with no turnbuckles. Instead, there are some sort of U shaped, approx. 4" long stainless jaw type fittings with many clevis pin holes (adjustability?). Is this the norm? Plenty of stay tensioning ability with these? I've never had a boat so rigged. All of my previous sailboat's stays terminated with turnbuckles for adjustment. Of course, they ran from 26' to 42' in length. Perhaps this size boat, with much lighter standing rigging, works just fine this way? Sorry to bother all with such mundane questions; just never seen this before. Thanks for your patience with such a "newb" Monty owner! *Jeff+* Molōn labe!
I asked the same question and Jerry Montgomery said yes that's normal AND the rigging should.be loose. August &Susan Trometer North Fort Myers, FL 239 849 4681 atrometer@gmail.com Adagio 22' Nonsuch #25 Casita Liberty Deluxe Jeep Liberty TV Sent from my iPhone On Mar 17, 2012, at 8:18 AM, Jeffrey Johnston <frjeff@gmail.com> wrote: Having just brought home my "new to me" M15, I have not yet rigged her (even in the driveway as a trial, learning run). I notice that my side stays and forestay terminate with no turnbuckles. Instead, there are some sort of U shaped, approx. 4" long stainless jaw type fittings with many clevis pin holes (adjustability?). Is this the norm? Plenty of stay tensioning ability with these? I've never had a boat so rigged. All of my previous sailboat's stays terminated with turnbuckles for adjustment. Of course, they ran from 26' to 42' in length. Perhaps this size boat, with much lighter standing rigging, works just fine this way? Sorry to bother all with such mundane questions; just never seen this before. Thanks for your patience with such a "newb" Monty owner! *Jeff+* Molōn labe!
I always leave the rig on a 15 loose enough so that I can pull the forestay tight enoough with one hand to put in the pin with the other. No need to be tighter; it's mainsheet tension that keeps the forestay tight anyway. A turnbuckle is of no added value and just another thing to go "sproing" in the middle of the pond. Important thing on the 15 is getting the mast rake just right- that why all the holes in the adjuster. jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "August Trometer" <atrometer@gmail.com> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 6:46 AM Subject: Re: M_Boats: M15 RiggingQuestion I asked the same question and Jerry Montgomery said yes that's normal AND the rigging should.be loose. August &Susan Trometer North Fort Myers, FL 239 849 4681 atrometer@gmail.com Adagio 22' Nonsuch #25 Casita Liberty Deluxe Jeep Liberty TV Sent from my iPhone On Mar 17, 2012, at 8:18 AM, Jeffrey Johnston <frjeff@gmail.com> wrote: Having just brought home my "new to me" M15, I have not yet rigged her (even in the driveway as a trial, learning run). I notice that my side stays and forestay terminate with no turnbuckles. Instead, there are some sort of U shaped, approx. 4" long stainless jaw type fittings with many clevis pin holes (adjustability?). Is this the norm? Plenty of stay tensioning ability with these? I've never had a boat so rigged. All of my previous sailboat's stays terminated with turnbuckles for adjustment. Of course, they ran from 26' to 42' in length. Perhaps this size boat, with much lighter standing rigging, works just fine this way? Sorry to bother all with such mundane questions; just never seen this before. Thanks for your patience with such a "newb" Monty owner! *Jeff+* Molōn labe! -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 6309 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message
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