Removing babystay & adding forward lowers. Twin shroud termination?

[Minerva]

My boat (moody 34) curently has a baby stay, cap shrouds and aft lowers. This winter I’m scheduled to rerig the mast for insurance compliance.

However I would like to remove the baby stay to accomplish a couple of aims; easier to gybe the pole, easier to stow tender on deck and opens the possibility of moving emergency forestry back aft of anchor locker and rigging a staysail when short tacking.

I’m quite happy with designing the chainstays in CAD and it looks like they’ll be easy to bolt to the main bulkhead so deck level doesn’t present a concern. What requires a bit of thought is both the aft and fwd lowers both being suspended / attached at the one shroud termination hole on the mast.

How is this usually handled? I imagine a stainless plate 5mm or so isosceles triangle - top hole attached to mast hole. Bottom two holes attached to fwd and aft shrouds respectively.

Does this seem reasonable?

Thanks

 

[neil_s]

My boat, 28 ft Seal, has migrated in the opposite direction! Your plan sounds fine - I still have the two hole to one hole plates on the mast. The only observation I can make is that the two holes for the lower shrouds are at slightly different levels, allowing the shroud terminals to lie close together neatly. I guess this is to allow both forward and after shrouds to line up with the mast hole bolt centre.

 

[Tranona]

Is the current lower attached to a tang under the spreader root or is it a T ball terminal? My mast has twin lowers with individual offset T balls

 

[Minerva]

Is the current lower attached to a tang under the spreader root or is it a T ball terminal? My mast has twin lowers with individual offset T balls

Currently it’s a single t-ball socket p&s for the aft lowers and a singular t ball socket on forward face for the baby stay.

 

[Tranona]

Then look at adding another T ball socket lower down and further forward to take the new forward lower. There are rules for how close they can be which a Selden approved rigger would have.