Got the Tornado on the water. Low wind, sorted out the rigging, sorta. Glad to be on the water rather than sanding.
While pulling it up the beach the bridle anchor snapped by the hole. It's a 1970s Houlton. Are the bridle anchors threaded into internal plates?
Can't wait to go again. Me likey Tornados, alot.
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Tornado bridle anchor
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Posted: Jul 15, 2016 - 08:38 PM
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Posted: Jul 16, 2016 - 08:22 PM
We had great day on our T as well. You might want to post your question to the Tornado list. Not a lot of Houltons around. Maybe someone there will have knowledge of them.
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Posted: Jul 17, 2016 - 01:50 PM
Good plan.
Love the T in the one hour it sailed.
I wonder who make good anchors? As an engineer I would like to know what steel type is used,, UTS etc. Once a sailing engineer, always a sailing engineer.
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Posted: Jul 17, 2016 - 07:25 PM
Had a chance to solo the T for a day of racing. Quite a thrill. Whole different boat one up.
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Posted: Jul 18, 2016 - 09:06 AM
Not sure about Tornado's but mysteres (originally designed after the Tornado and created at Sailcraft Canada) use a regular chainplate with a 4" (estimate) round bar welded to it
I have 2 bow tangs at home (purchased years ago just for this occasion) and will take pics when I get home.
the chainplate is bolted to internally to a plate and epoxied into the corner of the hull
I have broken off a single side stay plate (at the base) and replaced both a few years ago
3 weeks ago I broke off a bow tang (while sailing) ... was able to secure the bow cable by wrapping a line around my hull a few times and securing it to my furler. Was able to get towed in by a friend - was an exciting day :)
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Posted: Jul 18, 2016 - 12:07 PM
My T is a last generation Marstrom, so I probably can't give you much information directly from that boat, but...
There is a version of the Houlton plans which includes more details regarding hardware and construction. In that set of plans they state that the bow tang is an RWO-230.
It looks like RWO has changed their numbering scheme, but R2300 appears to be right. I'd verify with RWO.
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Posted: Jul 18, 2016 - 02:56 PM
this is what a mystere tang looks like (btw the boat shown is not a mystere)
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Posted: Jul 19, 2016 - 10:53 AM
this is helpful. Our anchor is round, like the side stay anchors. I will try and upload a photo after work.
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