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Looking at a boat with an IOR style frac rig – i.e. replete with backstay, runners, and checks.
Is there any way of getting rid of the runners/checks while still maintaining forestay tension? Short of going to a swept-back rig that is. Jumper stays are one solution, although they have their own set of issues.
I’ve seen Cathedral rigs mentioned but have never found a good description and from the few grainy distant photos I’ve found, it looks simply like an additional set of spreaders is added at the hounds and cap shrouds extended to the masthead.
Essentially converting a frac rig into MH in the transverse plane…
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