[quote=Edchris177]You live in a beautiful area Sax, I drove through it & the Los Padres forest a few weeks ago.
You work should not be for naught. If you have some photos it would be useful to post them, along with your text, into a new album in the "Photo Albums" Catamaran TECHNICAL Tips" section. That way they will found by others much more easily.
When I first started rebuilding my 5.7 I found that finding stuff in the forums, even using the "search" function wasn't as easy, or useful as the Tech tips photo journals.
If you don't want to go with the extra chainplate, to recoup your $$ I would list the stay as brand new in the classifieds & cut & replace the end with whatever the buyer needs. There should be lots of uses for a shorter stay than what you have, I would have bought it if I didn't just get a new one a month ago. If you replace the end with a marine eye/fork, you only loose a couple of inches. If you need to put a thimble on, that, as you know uses 5-6 inches.
That is a nice looking cat, any sail with color makes a bigger statement than an all white one.[/quote]
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