Jib forestay broke loose, having to remember rigging-swaging, etc.

Posted by CMarshall (cmars@…>)

We had alot of gusty wind over the weekend, and my 22 year old jib
stay broke. I wish I could say it was while sailing, but is happened
on a mooring. The 1983 F32 jib spar and jib probably put alot of
strain on the stay, when stored on the bow. It parted at a
turnbuckle where it attaches to the bow.
Need a quick fix while I work out getting the stay rerigged. So
looking at thimbles, sleeves, swagging tools, etc. Makes me glad I
don’t have to worry about loosing the mast if one of the many stays
goes.
Charles

Posted by fshellab (nshellab2@…>)

My jibstay on my 1987 Freedom 28 (sloop) parted at the turnbuckle a
couple of weeks ago when we were out on the Chesapeake in 22+ knots of
wind. The wire strands just separated. We grabbed it and fastened it
down to the bow pulpit without any real tension on it to keep it from
swinging around and doing any damage to something else. We didn’t
lower the jib until we went back in a couple of hours later.

I can’t really offer advice on a jury rig because I got lucky - when I
got into harbor a rigger was working on a boat a couple of slips down
and I hired them on the spot - they measured that day and I got it
replaced in less than 10 days.

I had to convince them that a jibstay on a Freedom is really part of
the running rigging and to set it up to leave a little bit of slack in
it. It doesn’t really seem structural at all, though I thought there
might be too much play in the mast when beating to windward without
it.

Anybody have any thoughts on the wisdom of sailing without the
forestay? I figured we could always set the spinaker if we didn’t want
a free floating jib…

Nan

— In freedomyachts2003@yahoogroups.com, “CMarshall” <cmars@a…>
wrote:

We had alot of gusty wind over the weekend, and my 22 year old jib
stay broke. I wish I could say it was while sailing, but is
happened
on a mooring. The 1983 F32 jib spar and jib probably put alot of
strain on the stay, when stored on the bow. It parted at a
turnbuckle where it attaches to the bow.
Need a quick fix while I work out getting the stay rerigged. So
looking at thimbles, sleeves, swagging tools, etc. Makes me glad I
don’t have to worry about loosing the mast if one of the many stays
goes.
Charles

Posted by axel thorson (hjulbyhavn@…>)

All us “old timers” (Hoyties?) sail without one all
the time. In extreme cases it may protect your sail
from having to take an excess load the rest of the
time its primary function can only be to make the sail
a little cheaper and the boat easier to sell.



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Posted by CMarshall (cmars@…>)

My guess is the camberspar boom needs the tension from the stay to
flip over when you tack. Did yours flip when you tacked? My wire
had rusted where it went into the turnbuckle. Looks like there would
have been standing water there at the top of the turnbuckle.
Charles

— In freedomyachts2003@yahoogroups.com, “fshellab” <nshellab2@e…>
wrote:

My jibstay on my 1987 Freedom 28 (sloop) parted at the turnbuckle a
couple of weeks ago when we were out on the Chesapeake in 22+ knots
of
wind. The wire strands just separated. We grabbed it and fastened it
down to the bow pulpit without any real tension on it to keep it
from
swinging around and doing any damage to something else. We didn’t
lower the jib until we went back in a couple of hours later.

I can’t really offer advice on a jury rig because I got lucky -
when I
got into harbor a rigger was working on a boat a couple of slips
down
and I hired them on the spot - they measured that day and I got it
replaced in less than 10 days.

I had to convince them that a jibstay on a Freedom is really part of
the running rigging and to set it up to leave a little bit of slack
in
it. It doesn’t really seem structural at all, though I thought there
might be too much play in the mast when beating to windward without
it.

Anybody have any thoughts on the wisdom of sailing without the
forestay? I figured we could always set the spinaker if we didn’t
want
a free floating jib…

Nan