- Installed 1/4" cushion clamp from Ancor for masthead wires.
- Installed Harken Carbo Air 57mm Swivel
for spinnaker halyard with a 1/4' x 7/8" grip clevis pin.
- Cut top foil section to 1 8-1/2" per calculation in section 3.6 of the Selden manual to join with the special 2000mm foil section.
- Threaded the headstay through all foil and joints, then assembled the foil from top to bottom by insert the lock in the lower foil section, inserting the joint into the lower foil section, alignin the upper and lower foil sections with the lock in place for both, finally pushing the joint halfway into the upper foil section by pushing from the bottom of the lower section. Repeat for each section.
- Headstay wire length 35' 11" after deduction 2" to change mast rake from the calculation in section 3.6 of the Selden manual.
- 0' 2-1/4" cut down stay extender at masthead.
- 36' 3"! pin to pin with the rigging screw opened 10 turns or ~25%. Allowing the stay to lengthened by another 2" if needed.
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- The Selden rigging screw has 39 turns from fully closed to fully open.
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- Have in reserve two eye-jaw toggles that we installed on the previous headstay:
- 1-15/16"pin center to pin center Alexander Roberts Co (ARCO)
bronze eye & jaw fixed toggle with 1/2" pin ( FT-16-C
), despite being listed as 2-1/16" pin center to pin center.
- 2-3/16" pin center to pin center Wilcox Crittenden bronze eye & jaw fixed toggle with 1/2" pin.