I eventually caught up with my rigger yesterday and took him the two turnbuckle bodies that the surveyor thought had hairline cracks. He inspected them and could not find any cracks and thinks that what the surveyor
saw was the rough line of the casting marks along the inside of each side of the frame. I also looked using my bench magnifier and could not see any cracks. That said, I am still going to replace both cap shroud turnbuckles and the one port side lower shroud turnbuckle. I am also going to have a full rig inspection next week and see what comes of that. I did have a visual rigging inspection done after purchasing Chardonnay in ¡®Sep ¡®21 and at that time, my rigger told me that the Rod rigging was in good shape and when I asked
him ¡° would you go to Bermuda with this rig?¡± He told me yes, no problem. I¡¯m going to do some digging and
try to find out if & when the standing rigging was replaced.
I had measured the pitch of the threads on both sizes of turnbuckle and they were the same (20 TPI). I then found that the Hayn replacement 3/8¡± turnbuckle body came with 24 TPI threads. My rigger identified that the lower was actually 9/16¡± x 20 thread, rather than 3/8¡± - which he said was no longer common, but apparently still obtainable.?
Thanks everyone for your input the saga continues¡..
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Pete Waterson
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