[C320-list] C320-list Digest, Vol 1665, Issue 1

[Alan Goodman]

Warren - As you know our hulls are 5 apart.  With my vang, the boom is fully supported and, without any tension on the vang line, positions the bottom of the boom perhaps 3" above the top of the dodger.  The vang is clearly spring loaded evidenced by the fact that I can pull bottom of the boom down to the top of the dodger.  Pulling down the boom requires quite a bit of effort, either me very forcefully pulling down on the boom or using the port winch to tension the vang line.  There are four holes in my vang exterior 'piston', one of which is selected to align with the single hole in the interior vang 'rod'.  Once aligned, a pin is inserted.  Selection of the exterior hole dictates the boom angle at rest.  Sounds like something is amiss with your set up.  Alan 


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> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 15:26:18 -0500
> From: Warren Updike <wupdike at hotmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [C320-list] halyard/topping lift
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> I've always wondered about this: my boom vang is not spring loaded, it won't
> support the boom without a topping lift.  So, what I'm wondering is on the
> early version 320s was the boom spring loaded and it's just a matter of the
> spring no longer working; or, was the spring loaded vang a later feature? 
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> Warren & Pattie Updike
> 1994 C320 #62 "Warr De Mar"
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