Dismasted!

Arcadia wrote: Piero, your conclusion seems accurate and not the margin of safety that I’ve always assumed on the rigging. At 30 degrees of heel, I calculate a load on the cap shroud of about 40 percent of breaking strength.  At 50 degrees of heel (maximum load), I get about 50 percent of breaking strength.  This is based on Hanse published stability curve and static load. Well done for chasing this down for us.

Edited by Pzucchel - 13 March 2026 at 05:19

Based on feedback from several folks and constraints imposed by our insurance (which defines the hurricane exclusion zone as everything south of Hattaras after July 1) and the realities of making repairs in the Caribbean (it’ll take months to get a mast here), we’ve decided to motor to Antigua and put Bonny Doon on a cargo ship to Newport RI. Does anyone have experience transporting a 575 by cargo ship? — we’re looking for docking plans and specs that Hanse doesn’t seem to make readily available.

I have just noticed this thread. We have been on holidays back in Australia for 6 weeks. Mainer, sorry to hear about your problems. Our boat has done about 40,000nm over the last 12 years and we have had yearly inspections for about the last 6 years. We had two of those done by FKG in Sint Maarten and they found a minor issue with a ferral on the backstay and replaced the cable. The next year we discussed with them about replacing the headstay because as they said it can't be inspected fully unless it is removed. So, we decided to replace it as well mainly because we were heading to Panama and across the Pacific that year. We are currently in Fiji and will be home in Aust by the start of cyclone season this year (end Oct) and we will probably look at replacing the standing rigging once we are there. I haven't heard of many rigging issues with the Selden 575 rig except for the Pzucchel's problem. Good luck with the fix.