{"id":1337,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:09:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:09:29","slug":"swept-back-spreaders-and-baby-stays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/swept-back-spreaders-and-baby-stays\/","title":{"rendered":"Swept Back Spreaders and Baby Stays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p> Dear Steve, We have been following your commentary for years now and have a question that we hope you can help with.<\/p>\n<p> Do you feel that a baby stay on the ketch rigged Sundeer 64&#8217;s would aid in preventing a mast inversion due to operator error? What conditions would create a circumstance where you could lose the spar? <\/p>\n<p> I am referring to page 662 of Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia, regarding your discussion of swept back spreaders. Is this setup less forgiving than a conventional spreader configuration with forward shrouds?<\/p>\n<p> Any comment would be appreciated. Thanks, Wayne <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p> Hi Wayne: Swept spreaders, such as used on the Sundeer 64 ketches, push the mast forward. As such, they take the place of a forward lower shroud or baby stay. Since there is always a forward component to the thrust, the other shrouds would not be doing any work.<\/p>\n<p>We would recommend a cutter stay, for use with heavy weather sails. Regards &#8211; Steve<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Steve, We have been following your commentary for years now and have a question that we hope you can <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/swept-back-spreaders-and-baby-stays\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-rigs-and-rigging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36196,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/36196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}