Way to go on your 22 Chrysler . I'm overhauling a 26 Chrysler myself and not having much in the way of hands on experience the best advice i can give you is to forum search. This forum is a gold mine of information... but you will need to do a little digging. Others with real experience will be glad to help you I'm sure. Oh yes... pics the more the better, they are like candy to those on this forum.
Terrence
Wilmington N.C.
Chrysler 26 1980
Pandora (for now)
About your pin issue on the forstay.
If you have not already, check my raising the mast link in my signature.
When I set the boom up I make sure it is slightly less than 90 degrees to the mast. This allows me to pull the mast far enough up and forward to have a slack forstay. I then simply insert or remove the pin. Works well.
Also, you do not have to use the boom as the lever. Some folks have uses a stetch of pipe, 2X4 or whatever. Just make sure it is strong enough to not collapse.
I made my own bridles. Make sure the eye in the center is roughly centered on the pivot point of the mast. The legs if memory serves me are connected to the 23 and 32 hole back in the toe rail from the bow.
Sharky there is right, if you angle what ever your are using as a jin pole back toward the top of the mast it will allow you get the slack in the forestay to make getting it loose a cinch. I also put some weight on the gin pole to help get some slack in the forestay....don't forget to let off the backstay as well. Doing this also kept me from dropping the mast on one occasion where the old worn our mainsheet latch unhooked from the gin pole, I sucked all the air out of the boat ramp area on that day..........
The only reason I did not get the quick release tensioner when I was sailing the Newport was you still needed the turnbuckle and adding 4" or so to the headstay would give too much aft rake to the mast and turnbuckle could not take up unless you were going to have a headstay made shorte by the same amount as the closed length of the adjuster.
. I'm overhauling a 26 Chrysler myself and not having much in the way of hands on experience the best advice i can give you is to forum search. This forum is a gold mine of information... but you will need to do a little digging. Others with real experience will be glad to help you I'm sure. Oh yes... pics the more the better, they are like candy to those on this forum.
