Spreaders

New spreaders arrived today...Just had to show 'em off. Steve Urbanski Elizabeth Grace 1972 Cal 27 Pop-top #141 Chicago, IL (See attached file: spreaders.pdf) - For more information about UL, its Marks, and its services for EMC, quality registrations and product certifications for global markets, please access our web sites at http://www.ul.com and http://www.ulc.ca or contact your local sales representative. -- ********* Internet E-mail Confidentiality Disclaimer ********** This e-mail message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose, use, disseminate, distribute, copy or rely upon this message or attachment in any way. If you received this e-mail message in error, please return by forwarding the message and its attachments to the sender. UL and its affiliates do not accept liability for any errors, omissions, corruption or virus in the contents of this message or any attachments. *****************************************************************

st… [at] us.ul.com wrote: > > New spreaders arrived today...Just had to show 'em off. > Cool! Explain please. Looks like there's an end cap that captures the shroud, plus two holes for seizing wire to hold the tip in vertical position? Chris Campbell

I stumbled onto the JSI site: http://www.newjsi.com/spars_spreaders.aspx somehow through Google. I had planned to make new spreaders using spruce from Aircraft Spruce this year since the old spreaders were getting rough. JSI did a superior job (In my opinion). About two weeks turnaround (just what they said - which is rare these days). They weld the airfoil shape to an aluminum block which is machined to match the shape of your old spreaders, then finish it off with the captivating assembly on the tip. Kinda expensive since the spreaders approached 25% of what I paid for the whole boat. Here are a few more pictures. (See attached file: spreaders2.pdf) Steve Urbanski Elizabeth Grace 1972 Cal 27 Pop-top #141 Chicago, IL Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com wrote on 03/17/2008 09:32:41 AM: > st… [at] us.ul.com wrote: > New spreaders arrived today...Just had to show 'em off. > > > > Cool! Explain please. Looks like there's an end cap that > captures the shroud, plus two holes for seizing wire to hold the tip > in vertical position? > > Chris Campbell > - For more information about UL, its Marks, and its services for EMC, quality registrations and product certifications for global markets, please access our web sites at http://www.ul.com and http://www.ulc.ca or contact your local sales representative. -- ********* Internet E-mail Confidentiality Disclaimer ********** This e-mail message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose, use, disseminate, distribute, copy or rely upon this message or attachment in any way. If you received this e-mail message in error, please return by forwarding the message and its attachments to the sender. UL and its affiliates do not accept liability for any errors, omissions, corruption or virus in the contents of this message or any attachments. *****************************************************************

st… [at] us.ul.com wrote: > > JSI did a superior job (In my opinion). About two weeks turnaround > (just what they said - which is rare these days). They weld the > airfoil shape to an aluminum block which is machined to match the > shape of your old spreaders, then finish it off with the captivating > assembly on the tip. Kinda expensive since the spreaders approached > 25% of what I paid for the whole boat. > Well, we all know that price is no measure of the value of our boats (and I'm not kidding at all about that). And I always try to bear in mind that the boat's equipment is my protection against harm in a dangerous environment. None of us breathe through gills or can adjust our body temp downward. Finally, the way we prepare and maintain our boats reflects somewhat on our general competence. We've all known people who had nice boats that were poorly maintained and always on the verge of some disaster--hardware failing, pins falling out, running rigging breaking. If you needed help in a difficult situation, would you look to that skipper or the one with the boat that was always well kept and organized? That said, I did do a repair on my old spruce spreaders (other boat) last spring. The boat has a spruce mast and these look good on it. The repair involved replacing a 40-plus year old repair done by somebody else. Mine ought to last longer than that. Chris Campbell

I sent this photo to Rob off-list yesterday because I was at the office and not at the e-mail account that is subscribed. Here is the photo of Conquest's old spreaders. The rigging was rod so there was a terminal joint at the spreader. Rod rigging doesn't like bending. The spreader tip, badly corroded as you can see, had a pin that went through the two terminals connecting them and anchoring the spreader at that point. With wire rigging, that is not necessary as the wire can bend at that point but the spreader angle needs to be correct to avoid a vector other than along its axis. Anyway, here is the photo. The entire mast looked like this so it was all replaced. Mike Kennedy Conquest Cal 40 # 96

Three years ago I lightly sanded off the flaky varnish on our standard cal 29 wooden spreaders and used a layer of smith's penetrating epoxy, let it get tacky, then painted with easypoxy gloss white. When we hauled the mast this last fall it was still really firm and wiped down with water to look as good as new. But I lightly sanded again and put one more layer on, then used some green and yellow paints to paint a squiggley snake on top of each one with open red mouths and sharp white teeth (only a bird would think these were snakes). The yard thought it was funny but no more birdxxxx on the sailcover or deck. now some little birds think the lifelines are a hoot.at least it's closer to the scuppers. HH

Please to send me a picture of the snake. I want to paint them on my spreaders. What a great idea!!! Allen On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Helen Horn <he… [at] sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > Three years ago I lightly sanded off the flaky varnish on our standard cal > 29 wooden spreaders and used a layer of smith's penetrating epoxy, let it > get tacky, then painted with easypoxy gloss white. When we hauled the mast > this last fall it was still really firm and wiped down with water to look as > good as new. But I lightly sanded again and put one more layer on, then used > some green and yellow paints to paint a squiggley snake on top of each one > with open red mouths and sharp white teeth (only a bird would think these > were snakes). The yard thought it was funny but no more birdxxxx on the > sailcover or deck. now some little birds think the lifelines are a hoot.atleast it's closer to the scuppers. HH > > >

On 9/22/2010 8:45 PM, Allen Edwards wrote: > > Please to send me a picture of the snake. I want to paint them on my > spreaders. What a great idea!!! > Another alternative is to run a line of monofilament fish line just above the spreader, interfering with landing by the birds. Chris Campbell

I am thinking that the snakes will keep birds off more than the spreaders. I hope Helen took a picture. Allen On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Chris Campbell < cl… [at] charterinternet.com> wrote: > > > On 9/22/2010 8:45 PM, Allen Edwards wrote: > > > > Please to send me a picture of the snake. I want to paint them on my > spreaders. What a great idea!!! > > > > Another alternative is to run a line of monofilament fish line just above > the spreader, interfering with landing by the birds. > > Chris Campbell > > >