How tight do we tighten the Turnbuckles

[Jim Cate]

A time honored DIY approach: tighten until the mast buckles, then back off three turns.

(just kidding, of course)

Jim

[dfelsent]

Ivor Dedekam’s book is great way to help build that mental model of what tuning a rig is all about. Rake. Prebend. Overbend. And all that. Ivor is an illustrator and his pictures are worth the proverbial thousand words.

[dfelsent]

Originally Posted by Jim Cate

A time honored DIY approach: tighten until the mast buckles, then back off three turns.

(just kidding, of course)

Jim

No Jim. I beg to differ. The time honored DIY approach is to loosen the rig until the mast inverts and falls over the side in a bit of snotty weather then tighten it a bit. [emoji1]

[Spot]

Here are the instructions that came with the gauge:

https://loosnaples.com/how-to-use-pt...tension-gauges

[GILow]

Originally Posted by dfelsent

No Jim. I beg to differ. The time honored DIY approach is to loosen the rig until the mast inverts and falls over the side in a bit of snotty weather then tighten it a bit. [emoji1]

Yep, I can vouch for this approach.