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    Posted: 27 Aug 07 at 11:48pm
Originally posted by NickA

Dumb rule then. Needs dumping.  What do they say about adjustable vectran lowers?

It's meant to avoid everyone rushing out and wasting £££'s on things that make you 0.00001% faster.

Adjustable lowers: anything supplied as built is OK and may be adopted by others. That said, I've yet to feel any benefit...
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Originally posted by NickA

But using V12 for the forestay only, seems like an increasingly good idea on my boat.

Until someone protests you Nick - the 3k rules specify wire (of the original diameter even...).

Dumb rule then. Needs dumping.  What do they say about adjustable vectran lowers?

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Hey it was 15 quid for the forstay. I can therefore afford to splash out on a new one again 
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Originally posted by NickA

But using V12 for the forestay only, seems like an increasingly good idea on my boat.

Until someone protests you Nick - the 3k rules specify wire (of the original diameter even...).
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Yes I can see replacing all the stays with vectran is a poor idea, just due to creep.  You can keep on retensioning the forestay (we do that on the 3k whenever the jib goes up!) but the mast would slowly rake forward!

But using V12 for the forestay only, seems like an increasingly good idea on my boat.

Thanks for the input people.
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Originally posted by BBSCFaithfull

Just put a new forstay in the 14 and the vectran is a good addition. Much cheeper than wire.
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How are you going to repeat rig tension setting? Have you measured how it changes?
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Just put a new forstay in the 14 and the vectran is a good addition. Much cheeper than wire.
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Originally posted by Medway Maniac

But how will I know if it's the rigging or the hull creeping?

You won't. I've known some old wood boats with steel shrouds lose a quite astonishing amount of rig tension after a windy race in lumpy water.
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Originally posted by Roy Race

Right, but anyone who's serious about their racing should be doing this anyway.

Being serious and being idle clearly don't mix . Maybe I don't really want to know there's a problem...
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Originally posted by Medway Maniac

Aside: I always thought the loads on the shrouds were higher than on the forestay...

You thought right.

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...maybe after all this talk I should measure (rig tension) before and after racing?!

Right, but anyone who's serious about their racing should be doing this anyway.
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