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Originally Posted by tagster
Thanks Camaraderie....Wow that site says the galvanized cable is stronger.
Anyway to answer the questions my rig is 1970, glass hull. She seems to have a timber substructure. 1970 is "older". I'm not bringing the rigging to modern specs by any means. Where the rules of thumb seem to say 10% to 12% of breaking strength, I'm going for 5% to 8%. For my forestays, I'm not even at a measurable percentage of breaking strength yet, and the same is true all over my boat.
There was nearly no tension in my entire rig before I started the tuning. With the exception of a select few stays, which were tensioned seemingly at random, I most of my stays were less than a few hundred pounds of tension. Not even enough tension to show up on my tensioning gauge.
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Galvanised rigging certainly still has many proponents. It's biggest negative seems to be visual.
This might be of interest to you..
http://www.classicmarine.co.uk/Artic...ng_rigging.htm
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