Posted: Sep 13, 2009 - 09:45 PM
I have been sailing a mid 70's H16 for years and finally got tired of the slightly bent mast and a few other issues so I bought a newer used (1985) H16. My plan is to take the parts I want from each and combine them to get a better boat. One of the things I don't like about the 85 boat is the roller furling jib. So since my standing rigging on the 70's boat was fairly new I moved it all over to the '80's boat. By the way if anyone want to buy a complete roller furling setup for a H16, let me know. Anyway, here is my problem. Since moving the forestay and side stays to the new boat I can't step the mast. When I had the sidestays adjusted where they were on the old boat the forestay was several inches too short. When I extended them the forestay was long enough to attach to the wye but the mast was obviously raked way too far forward and the mast step pivot is jammed so I can't remove the pin. this leads me to belive that the fore stay is too short, but it worked fine on the old (1970's) boat. I measured the forestay at 16'10" eye to eye. Is that the right length? As I say it is only a couple of years old so it should be right (i.e.not stretched). Any other ideas? I know they shortened the forestay about 4-inches when they installed the roller furling on the 85 boat, that's why I moved all the standing rigging from the 70's boat to the 80's boat. That and I know the rigging from the 70's boat is only a couple of years old.
