[C320-list] halyard/topping lift

[Warren Updike]

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? 

Warren & Pattie Updike
1994 C320 #62 "Warr De Mar"

-----Original Message-----
From: Denny Browne [mailto:dennybrowne at verizon.net] 
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 6:52 PM
To: C320-List at Catalina320.com
Subject: Re: [C320-list] halyard/topping lift

Correct. The spring loaded vang supports the boom with no problem. I attach
the main halyard to the end of the boom and tighten the mainsheet in the
slip. Added a small long d-shackle for that purpose and its lasted ten years
with no problem. 

Denny Browne
310.408.9591

Sent from handheld, sorry for typos, grammar, etc...

On Mar 2, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Amiraults Family <amiraults at sympatico.ca>
wrote:

> Denny:
> 
> 
> 
> Bear is replacing the current main/Dutchman this spring with a Doyle 
> main/stack pack/lazy jacks. You note that you dispensed with the 
> topping lift when refusing the Dutchman. Without a Dutchman you don't 
> need a topping lift?
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Amirault
> 
> 797 Waltzing Bear, too
>