The Cape Dory Board

Fred, thanks so much for providing the pictures and comments. Picture #5 and your comment really makes sense. I wonder why there is no lateral support going port / starboard to support the center trunk which is so heavily built. More importantly, there is no lateral beam or support that I could see ...

Hi Fred, curious if you were able to take some pics or gather some information from your boat?

Hi Fred, Thanks for the info. I'll look forward to hearing back about what you find on your boat. Looking at your drawing of where the steel members are, makes me think that the steel member spanning the aft bulkhead has failed and needs supporting. There is no sagging under the forward bulkhead. He...

Another idea:

A few more pictures. I've put a couple concepts here which might be completely wrong as I've never installed a compression post before. Any tips very much appreciated.

Hi Fred and everyone else, I've gone back to the boat with my new Loos PT-2 gauge. The bulge had not completely popped out but had receded a little. I tuned the rigging, however once I got to 25 on the backstay I stopped. That was about as tight as I had it before. Same with cap shrouds. I stopped a...

Went back to my sheet I kept with the Loos gauge. I have been using 15% of breaking per the Loos reference charts as ballpark. I have my 7/32 backstay at about 900 pounds - “30” on the gauge I wrote down.. and my side stays a notch under that - “29” on the Loos PT 2. I parsed about 500 pounds on my...

Mike, Also - I've got my backstay at about 900 pounds (if I'm remembering correctly, I'll check) with a Loos Gauge (the forestay is not measurable under the furling blade, but it would measure a little higher due to the more vertical angle compare to the backstay), but if you get the backstya corre...

FYI The mast step position in the 27 is not aft of the door between the cabin and the head space. It is more or less centered or maybe slightly forward of center overhead in the head space and aft of the opening to the v berth. So hard to imagine over tensioning of the stays would create a sag in t...

Thanks for sharing that thread. Helps to understand how it's constructed. Out of curiosity do you know the tension settings you use on your CD27? The manual doesn't mention a % of breaking point for the wires, just says to tighten them so they have 1 inch or so of play when you pull on them with &qu...

Hi everyone, my first post here. Looking forward to engaging with the community. I have a CD 27 I've been sailing for a couple months. I stepped the mast and tuned the rigging myself, so have been fiddling with it. I noticed the jib sail would "pump" sometimes when heading close into the w...