I was working on my Sea Sprite this weekend (varnishing that cherry stained mahagony......ahhhhhh) and a fellow comes up and askes what kind of boat it is. After a brief converstion he mentions he is a typhoon owner and he is admiring my upper jumper spreaders and asking me if he thinks they would help on his Typhoon. He says that in light air his mast is bend backwards so that his boom is drooping into his cockpit. In heavier air it straightens out. He says that off the boat the mast is straight. As I have never sailed a typhoon I told him that I would have an answer for him with your help. I guess his sail is stretched or cut full.......or his forestay is too loose? I figure between this post and the previous one I will have an answer for him.
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Typhoon.....mast bend?
Moderator: Jim Walsh
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Dana
Re: Typhoon.....mast bend?
I owned a Seasprite 23. I still have an extra complete set of stays and shrouds (brand new) should you ever need them at a fair price.
Both boats are fractional rigs. Yours is a very high aspect ratio as compared to the Ty. Although they are similiar, he does not have both forward and back lower shrouds. On the Ty it is sometimes easy to mix up the deck plates to be used between the back lower shroud and the upper shroud. The lack of a forward lower shroud is probably the basic problem....allowing the mast to bend at the mid point...backward...under light loads. My guess is he has a basic tuning problem between the forestay and with the lower back shrouds as far as tension. It appears it is not preventing mid mast bend.
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I was working on my Sea Sprite this weekend (varnishing that cherry stained mahagony......ahhhhhh) and a fellow comes up and askes what kind of boat it is. After a brief converstion he mentions he is a typhoon owner and he is admiring my upper jumper spreaders and asking me if he thinks they would help on his Typhoon. He says that in light air his mast is bend backwards so that his boom is drooping into his cockpit. In heavier air it straightens out. He says that off the boat the mast is straight. As I have never sailed a typhoon I told him that I would have an answer for him with your help. I guess his sail is stretched or cut full.......or his forestay is too loose? I figure between this post and the previous one I will have an answer for him.
darnius@aol.com
Both boats are fractional rigs. Yours is a very high aspect ratio as compared to the Ty. Although they are similiar, he does not have both forward and back lower shrouds. On the Ty it is sometimes easy to mix up the deck plates to be used between the back lower shroud and the upper shroud. The lack of a forward lower shroud is probably the basic problem....allowing the mast to bend at the mid point...backward...under light loads. My guess is he has a basic tuning problem between the forestay and with the lower back shrouds as far as tension. It appears it is not preventing mid mast bend.
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I was working on my Sea Sprite this weekend (varnishing that cherry stained mahagony......ahhhhhh) and a fellow comes up and askes what kind of boat it is. After a brief converstion he mentions he is a typhoon owner and he is admiring my upper jumper spreaders and asking me if he thinks they would help on his Typhoon. He says that in light air his mast is bend backwards so that his boom is drooping into his cockpit. In heavier air it straightens out. He says that off the boat the mast is straight. As I have never sailed a typhoon I told him that I would have an answer for him with your help. I guess his sail is stretched or cut full.......or his forestay is too loose? I figure between this post and the previous one I will have an answer for him.
darnius@aol.com