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Originally Posted by Rockstar

I remember tuning the rig on our Peterson 44. With ol' Ivar Dedekam's instruction in hand I went about tuning the rig at the dock then at sea under sail to get it just right.

We didn't exactly have a manual but two guys on our quay have done this-including our live-aboard crewmate ; so it was a group effort...I'll confine myself to bicycle wheel spoke adjustments in the future. We lost a guy last year when his mast collapsed on him in a 'beer-can race'... and I always think worst case scenario! Oddly, I was the one who noted the stays seemed 'awfully stiff' w/o the usual 1 in. of play when we got the boat back down the to our marina from the refit. The stays are a year old as one had frayed a while back, with a few wire strands unraveling, so we had the whole boat redone by a pro rigger.