Fitting the trapeze wires

[Greg]

Just wondering if anyone has a good way of fitting the backing plate for a T-terminal (for the trapeze wires) as they were tied onto the mast before.
Any Ideas?

[roland_trim]

Ours loop around the spreader.
i.e. strbd one passes around the front of the mast and around the port spreader.

[daryl_wilkinson]

You can crimp an eye onto the shroud.

[neal_gibson]

ERR no you wont be able to crimp an eye on to a shroud not with out removing the t-terminal from the top to slide the ferral down can be down if you have all new shrouds but if not your shrouds are goign to be 2" at least shorter if you dont have full new ones made up

[daryl_wilkinson]

Err... quite right. Just responding to the question. Don't know if new shrouds are in the refit?

[daryl_wilkinson]

this is how Andy P did his...

[Phil Alderson]

You can put a short length of 5mm string through the holes above your shrouds with a loop on each end tied close to the mast. The less holes you have in your mast the better.

If you really have to put a backing plate in you just take the plate, place it on the mast draw around the hole in the middle, then file out till the raised part fits in the hole in the mast. Clamp it to the mast and drill both holes. It should fit through the big hole in the mast and you just have to use some wire, tape and a T-terminal to fettle it into place and rivet.

[Dave_Fudge]

Well we're mighty glad of all the advice and this is the soloution we came up with. It worked an absolute treat with both of us outboard (well when Greg wasn't trying to waterski!!!!) The mud smeared on the mast is evidence of agressively ploughing Burghfield's lower eco-system but only once. 

[Will_Lee]

Nice! Glad it worked well. Well done!

[phil_kirk]

you could loose the T hooks now and avoid any related snags of the kite of kite halyard.

We drilled a hole in our spreaders and took the dynema traplines through the hole round the spreader, back down the hole and spliced it to itself.

Glad that you are getting some fun on the water.

[Dave_Fudge]

Fun!!! That word seems so inadequate with relation to sailing Cherubs....We grin for hours/days after sailing her I'm a bit concerned that 12ft of carbon skiff might get recatergorized as an illegal substance. Maybe it's a good job we didn't call her "Class A Addiction"!!!!
Yes, the T-Connectors need to go so we'll look for some streamlined shackles so that we don't break the integrity of the Dyneema splicing and we can take them off easily.

[lucy_lee]

We use small forged shackles which need a screwdriver to do up so there is no chance of getting the shackle pin caught on anything.

I think ours came off small ronstan blocks of some description.