[C320-list] Standing rigging

[P.F. Ross]

Peter, sorry to hear your trip is off but in this case, much better safe
than sorry!

I cannot speak to your standing rigging, but when my mast was down for the
first (and only) time in 2015, I replaced all sheaves (rigrite.com), all
lights -- LED anchor, LED combo steaming and deck lights (marinebeam.com),
VHF antenna, Raymarine wind direction and speed transducer and Davis
windex.  Ran new wiring to all.  Bottom line is that I did not want to have
to go up the mast again for a long time.  It was all pretty easy and I did
it myself with the mast on the hard.

I did not worry about unplugging anything since I made continuous wire runs
to switches, radio and cockpit wind instrument.  I left plenty of slack in
all wires in the event I unstep the mast in the future and will cut wires
and install plugs then.

I also rebedded all chainplates as well as the mast step plate.

All FYI from my foggy memory.

Frank Ross
Beta Wave #206
Naples, FL

On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 2:29 PM nibj via C320-list <
c320-list at lists.catalina320.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately a rigging check reveals we need new standing rigging.  My
> co-owner and I are thinking of doing it ourselves (ordering premade stays
> and so on from Catalina Direct).  Has anyone done this?  Of course we will
> have the mast down but it looks like putting on the premade stays will be
> easy.
>
> Rather than order premade stays, an alternative is to have a local rigging
> company make up the stays by measuring ours.  Is that a better
> alternative?  Are the boats sufficiently different that premade stays might
> cause issues?
>
> We plan to check the sheaves and VHF antenna.  Anything else we should
> replace or examine while the mast is down?  Is there anything we need to
> tell the yard before they unstep the mast?  How do we unplug the wiring?
>
> So many questions!  I hope someone can help - we don’t want to loose the
> whole summer season.
>
> Thanks in advance for comments
>
> Peter
> 1995 c320 #226
>
>