CP 23 Forestay/Jib Tack

[moonlight]

Folks, I've got a customer's question about their 23.  Not having one handy to check, I need to enlist your help.
Apparently, there are two SS straps at the bow.  As found, both are attached to forestay (they're identical).  Customer now inquires where to attach the jib tack.
Seems absolutely reasonable to me that whomever last rigged the boat should have left the inner strap free from the forestay, and maybe bent in a bit; and the hole in it receives the snap shackle or D-shackle or what have you from the jib tack.
The forestay would thus be via clevis pin w/ ring & turnbuckle attached to outer (forward) SS strap.

So, is this the way your boats are rigged, or did something else go missing in the last de-rigging/rigging adventure.

[Bob23]

I'm not sure I understand "strap". What year 23 are you talking about? With or without bowsprit?
Bob23

[Billy]

Strap=chain plate
And w/out a bow sprit.

Yes Moonlight, your assumptions are correct. Or at least that is how I have been rigging my boat the last 6 years.

[skip1930]

Quote "... after raising the mast, attach the head stay to the foremost hole in the bowsprit stem fitting." Unquote.
Now this was in reference to a CP-16, 19, 23, 25 with a bow sprit.

However, reading the owner's manual it's clear that he word 'bowsprit' applies to all bow set-ups. Those without bowsprits and those with appendences that stick out past the spoon bow line. Regardless the 'spoon bows' are fitted with two stacked chain plates or tangs having a hole in each for the attachment. The aft most hole is for the headsail tac.

Clear as mud?

skip.

[HideAway]

Moonlight is correct - HideAway does not have a bow sprit-  the foreward tang is for the head stay

[moonlight]

Yes, yes, and yes (I think.)  (I can't count the questions or anwsers, my mind is mush after the Southwest Boat Show in Houston last weekend and then doing the Gulfcoast boat show in Gulfport, MS this weekend - and worked in between the shows!)

Yes, I called it a strap instead of a chainplate; it's too thin to be any kind of "plate" but I get the designation.
Yes, this vessel lacks a bowsprit and thus anchor roller or anything sturdy to attach forward.
yes, I'll release the inner tang from the forestay and have them "tack" with that.

What is the normal arrangement shackle wise between the tang and the tack?

Thanks!

[slipaway]

Coming from Cortez fl. April 30 for the gathering , may stop at Gulfport on the way up, Slipaway would love to say hi to Hideaway