Hello all,
I just want to say that I am a new owner of a 1979 com-pac 16 hull #1028. The boat is in great shape and I am so excited. It did not have a name when we bought it so we still have that to do. I have been reading all of your post and have found tons of info that helped me make the choice of a com-pac. I have not sailed in many years since I was a teen so I have alot to remember, but hey that is the fun of it. I do have a question that I can not find anywhere. I need a diagram of how the boat riggs. I have a good idea but would love to find a manual or something so I can make sure I get it right.
Thanks for any help,
jkholley
There's a lot of information right here in the forum and image gallery on rigging a Com-Pac. In addition, you can get the basic manual for your boat from the manufacturers. Another resource is the Handbook of Trailer Sailer written by one of our own, Bob Burgess, also available through Hutchins.
(Just click the Logo at the top right to go right to their website.)
Enjoy and and share your questions, comments and experiences! :)
JK.............H.........
Welcome to the forum and to being the proud owner of a CP-16. You have chosen a fine sailboat. They are easy to rig and easy to sail, you surely will have a hard time wiping that grin off of your face when she first heels over and tightens up. Rigging is pretty straight forward. I tend to do it as follows.
Thru bolt the base of the mast into the base plate while resting the top of the mast on some type of crutch on the stern to keep the mast high enough not to crunch any of the fiberglass on the companionway hatch.
Have your side shrouds pinned into place, they will be slack until you lift and push the mast forward and vertical, it will just pivot on the base bolt and set down on the base, the bolt being in a vertical slot.
I usually bungee cord the forward stay to the pulpit area and pull on the stainless stay until I have it tight enough to insert a pin in the most forward hole, the back one being for the bottom jib clip. Thats it for the mast, there is no backstay so you are ready to put in the boom.
The 16 does not have a backstay with a boom clip on it, so you wil have to rig some type of line from the masthead to the rear of the boom as a (help me here someone, I'm drawing a blank) "HOLDER UPPER WHAT CHA MA CALL IT" so the boom doesn't lay in the cockpit while you are putting the main in the slot.
Our boat is a 1987, yours may have some differences, but those are the basics, now get out there and sail, your weather should be warm enough by now, we are still a bit chilly here, but the ice is finally gone.
Hope that helps you
"Topping Lift" . . . I use 5/32nd braided line. I have seen one CP16 with a wire Topping Lift. This line needs to be long enough to go slack when you raise the sail into final position. However, after you lower the sail the boom will be too low. So, you need to knot a loop into this line maybe 18" above the boom that attaches in a convenient fashion to the boom. In this position, the boom is raised above the heads of those sitting in the cockpit when the boat is at rest. I have a hook in the knot that I catch onto a metal loop fitting on the boom.
When making sail remeber to unclip the topping Lift line so it is full length again.
Ok,
just want to thank you guys. I rigged it this morning and everything was as said. The person I bought the boat from had the line in place to keep topping lift on the boom untill I raised the sails. Sawyer, your instructions were right on. I hope to get her on the water this Saturday or Sunday. Looks like rain Saturday, but will be sunny and 78 Sunday. LOL after I got her rigged and put back down ready to trailier, UPS came today with my manual and my book "Handbook of Trailer Sailing." Thanks for sugessting those items crbakdesign. I am all set now. Just have to find the right name for her.
Thanks again,
jkholley
Take a look at the pictures in the gallery and I think that you'll be able to gleen enough information on how to rig the 16.
She's a fine boat and a hoot to sail. Puttting the mast up is easy and a day at the dock playing with lines, boom and fenders and sheets and whatever does a body good. Your going to redo things about a million times...thats how you learn. Enjoy. :lol: skip.