Tuning my rigging like an amateur. DO NOT ATTEMPT ON YOUR OWN! I spent a lot of time researching my rigging and trying to find specs, which I did not find in...

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today I'm going be tuning my own Drake

disclaimer I am not qualified to do this

and you probably aren't either

so always hire a professional will do

this I have no excuse anyway so let us

talk tools or attend the rig you need a

tension gauge that has the appropriate

size for your stays mine are 5/16 right

there and 1/4 inch so this is a good one

for me

we need this to check the tension on

every stay and without it you really are

just guessing we also need suppliers

I got channel locks and needle nose and

also

wrench I also like to do this with my

Bible and my three gallon bucket of holy

water because it's a nightmare

yeah so on any slope design like mine

I've got my boat me

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rutter peel mask boom backs j4 stay man

I've got six shrouds total I've got cats

routes that go all the way up to the top

of the mast and then - well we're

shrouds on both sides that go about

halfway off masters and my mass is

actually keel mounted so it goes all the

way through the middle of the boat and

that is currently with cameras mounted

on and that is where it since if you

remember I had that worked on earlier

last year but now I need work on the top

part I think what happened is when they

worked on the bottom and put the mast

back in these got off just ever so

slightly because right now the problem

that I'm having is that my forced a

jiggles whole lot when I'm headed up

into the wind and I believe that is due

to improper tensioning on all of these I

already went through and checked all of

them and they are way off from what I

believe that they should be so I'm going

to have to go through each of them and

slacken them off and then retighten them

to the correct tension

keep in mind that this is an old though

there is no manufacturer specification

for these shrouds that's what I'll be

doing is I'll be taking the lower

shrouds to about 200 pounds and then

they capture out to about 700 or 800

pounds and then on the back and course

day I'll try to get it as tight as I

feel comfortable with

now some people and I'm copying this

from the internet so I apologize for

plagiarizing but some people like to

keep everything slack and loose so that

the mass will flop around and won't be

too tight but you'll break something

like that and the reason you do that is

because the lizard is the more this

moves and the more it moves the more

wild the forces are if the mast is fully

forward then all the tension is on the

back stay and not on the floor establish

here

if you hit a wave then all that gets

immediately thrown back and you're

forced a tensions up all the way in your

back stay you know a sign comes off so

it can damage things just from that

transfer of force if everything is nice

and tight then the transfer of force is

a little bit different because you're

not moving your mast as much so that is

the goal keep in mind I cannot stress

this enough I'm not a professional

everything I say should be taken with a

grain of salt about the size of the

ocean so yeah that is what we will do

today so the first step is going to be

getting rid of the cotter pins here that

is why you need those pliers once

they're out

and I will loosen the turnbuckles that

way they are slack or at least more

slack than they are now I've already

checked that the mast is centered which

is really the first step whenever you're

playing with this in a way that you do

that is you confuse the hell your

institution to measure how far the mass

just from different points on the boat

yeah

so I slackened off on all the other

shrouds and 25-meter

which I look at the 5/16 yes

somewhere between 1300 1500 pounds we're

gonna try to take it up to 1700 mm so in

that range and hopefully that'll be a

good setting for the back stage 4 stage

tension I'll need to then go back and

read tension everything else and we'll

be good to go so the last step of any

good tune is recording so right now the

backstay is that number 28 on the gauge

I'm gonna make a note here that is a

5/16 inch fax J and I'm also going to

notate today's date

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and basically every time I use this to

measure in the future I can compare and

I can find out you know how loose is

getting or how tight it's getting and

I'm going to assume that number 28 is

the future based setting on the door to

be using but I won't actually be able to

verify how great it is until I get the

boat out of water because that is a

final step and I can't do today

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