Posted by William A Cormack (wacormack@…>)
On my F36 I applied the star pattern cable ties two years
ago. No more noise and no interference with the internal halyards.
Bill
From:
FreedomOwnersGroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FreedomOwnersGroup@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of geraldfreshwater
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 6:15 AM
To: FreedomOwnersGroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: SPAM-LOW: [FreedomOwnersGroup] Re: wires slapping in the mast
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On an F33 I had both masts silent using sponges
on string. The first time the masts were
pulled, the yard took the sponges out of the main, and we too lay awake with
the
slapping, probably the neighbours as well! Last winter I put cable ties AND
pipe insulation
foam round the wires, as I had the masts out and all fittings removed, but just
put cable
ties in the (aluminium) mizzen. Both are silent now. The F33 doesn’t, of
course, have
internal halyards.
I have left pull-throughs in each mast for new wires, but I doubt if I can
expect to get a
wire up the pipe insulation, so any new equipment means slap, slap, slap again.
Ah, well!
Gerald Freshwater,
Castaway,
Shetland Isles.
— In FreedomOwnersGroup@yahoogroups.com,
Fargo Rousseau <fargo_r@…> wrote:
This slapping is a common problem…and takes away one of the beauties of
a
Freedom…the absence of rigging noise and vibration. I understand one of
the old
solutions was to cable-tie foam insulation tubes around the wire bundle during
installation. However this insulation eventually chafes away (ending in a
pile of black foam
blocking up the drains in the bottom of the mast).I am concerned about the foam sponge solution below. There are two
hardworking
halyards that must pass down this same mast…and both of them want to move
very very
freely.I know of no proven method to correct this problem on a stepped
mast. On and
unstepped mast, I have some preference for the the use of large industrial
strength cable
ties, cinched on the wire bundle in a star pattern with the untrimmed tails
hanging
out…placed about every 6 feet along the mast…but I have no experience
with this idea.Hope you find some good (workable and proven) ideas.
Fargo
Ex F30 #12
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