RS600 Help

Hi

The mast will be raked until you tighten the forestay.It also doesnt sit neatly on thre step.

It should not be hugely raked once you've got lots of forestay tension on - nothing like a Contender.

Go onto the RS Web site and look at the Tuning section for the 600 - lots of useful docs to print off. -  http://www.rs-association.com/

 

Good luck

 

Originally posted by turnturtle enjoy the boat and don't do what I did last night which will cost £100 for a new extension... (or a visit to the fishing shop if I follow the sound advice from the IainC)

I recently got a 2m Harrison extension from P&B for £75. It's the business and has taken a lot more abuse then the crap Holt one (I think they only get crap over a certain length - mine was 2.1m) I broke last season.

Incidentaly I made a Streaker and Oppy sailor quite happy when I presented each of them with a 'new' carbon tiller extension. I guess if you're lucky with where it broke you could sell both ends and recoup some of the replacement cost?

Edited by Matt Jackson

Originally posted by turnturtle I basically invert the mast on the forestay and once the sail's up it's fairly straight rig.

For a 600, thats some EXTREME rig tension!!  When i first got mine i talked to some of the old skool 600 guys and their general rule of thumb seemed to be "floppy is fast", the idea being you should set it to you weight so that as you put your weight on the wire the windward shroud should just go floppy.  On a loose gauge i doubt im evening hitting 20 (im quite light ya see). 
hhmmmmm i think i may try some extreme tension and see what it feels like, could well be that ive been sailing with a horrible shaped rig!

Any chance of you going to the 600 open at weymouth 1st wknd of june??
would be nice to race against some other Y&Y forum members!

Doug

Edited by Doug.H

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Rig tension-

I was told to whack it on, I had heard that powers the rig up???  perhaps this is bad advice? 

You don't want it too tight, just enough to keep the rig in the boat, so as Doug said, with your weight on the wire the windward shroud should be slightly slack. Any tighter and you will stop the mast rotating and downwind you won't be able to get the boom out. The only time you want it super-tight is in strong winds and big waves, when the whole thing is crashing around and you need to ensure the mast doesn't suddenly pop off it's support!

cheers

Jamie

Unfortunately my dad has gone and taken the Loose gauge to set up his Musto (I mean really!) so il have to do it on sunday.