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Re: Did you learn anything from the surveyor, Neil?

Not a lot, but some
He noted that one upper spreader was not bisecting the angle between the upper and lower part of one shroud. It may have moved.
He noted a bend to stbd in the mast, which we had already seen
We are in the process of checking that and loosening all the rig and retuning it

So far we have the mast straight athwartships and centered.
I am about to go up and look at the spreader ends, and adjust the angle. If the end caps do not grip the wire, properly, I will fix that, then tension the rig.

We used a borrowed Loos gauge to set 15% of breaking strength last time, 4 ears ago
This time will try Selden's suggestion of measuring stretch, and getting 3 mm stretch in 2 metres of wire, since that is equivalent to 15% of breaking strength for 1x19 wire

Comments and suggestions welcome

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