My buddy sails an old Sailcraft Tornado, with the non-adjustabls spreaders. Even with blown out sails, it's a fast, stable, fun recreational sail. After finally killing an old jib, he got a much newer tri-radial dacron one, and the incredible improvement in power and speed ![[Linked Image]](/forums/images/icons/cool.gif){kind=icon}
got me actually considering tuning the rig up. The main is a conventional dacron sail, not too blown out, actually.
So any suggestions for diamonds, rotator, etc would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Hi:
I never sailed a Tcat with the old soft rig, but a couple of years ago, I wrote a response to someone describing how to tune a soft rig and the idea behind it. You can find it at www.sailcrac.com. There are still some folks alive who actively sailed the old soft rig Tcats in anger. Jay Glaser is one of them. Call him at 949 675 6970. He can prolly help. One bad thing for you is that the old soft rig masts won't work with, and are not nearly strong enough for use with prebent sails. So anything that you buy new will not work correctly. I broke a Tornado mast by turtling in Boston Harbor way back in 1990. I was offered an old soft rig mast by one of the nice locals so that we could finish the regatta. Our speed sucked because our sails were designed for use on a prebent mast. A couple of weeks later the mast failed in rather spectacular fashion, with then girlfriend (now darling ace crew wife Casey) on the wire for the first time in her life.
-Greg Scace
Tornado USA815
Thanks for the link, Greg, it'll be a lot of help.