Wrenching Love for a Resolute Racing Shell

A reader just sent this question along:

Our club recently purchased a used 2005 Resolute Freedom 8+. We are currently getting everything prepared to go back on the water, but we don’t have the proper wrenches. I know that Resolutes require metric wrenches, but I don’t know what sizes! Help?

I sent this question along to our resident Resolute expert Casey Baker. Here is Casey’s reply:

Mike asked me to help answer your question so get out your pencil!

1. Rigger bolts are 10mm
2. Top nuts on the backstays are 13mm
3. Bottom pin nuts are 17mm

Other sizes you will find are 8mm to hold the shoes.

If you are working on the rudder those little nuts are 7mm, but I use long nose pliers since I lost my 7mm.

Lastly, on the backstays where the short tube is clamped on the long tube, you may have the allen head style screws. If so, they are 5mm.

Hope this helps.

Thanks Casey! And if any of you are rowing Resolutes, do you have other suggestions for our reader? If so, let us know.