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HOW TO tune my SAILBOAT RIGGING | Catalina 30 BOAT WORK
10 November 2024 · 18 min · 5K views · Long Beach, California
Man measures Catalina 30 rigging against blue sky
What this video covers
Andy tunes the standing rigging on his Catalina 30 sloop at Long Beach, following guidance from Rick Ross at Marina Rigging.0:50 The boat carries six shrouds — two cap shrouds in quarter-inch wire and four lowers in 3/16-inch wire — plus a forestay and backstay.1:30 He uses a Loos gauge PT2 to measure tension and a 100-foot tape hoisted on a halyard to check mast centering, measuring from the masthead down to the clevis pin of each cap shroud on both sides.2:05 The mast measured one inch off-centre to port; he corrects it by loosening port turnbuckles and tightening starboard ones one full turn at a time, tracking each half-turn with a screwdriver angle as a clock reference and marking thread position with blue tape strips before touching any turnbuckle.5:46 Final measurements land at 49.5 inches on both sides.14:52 Tension readings end around 8–10% of breaking strength on all shrouds — deliberately loose to avoid over-tensioning.16:10 He also covers checking mast straightness by sighting up the track to detect spreader-induced bend.16:49 Mast centering requires adjusting both sides simultaneously, not just tightening one side.8:22
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