Aussie Jib rigging

Can anybody provide a description, or better yet, a picture or diagram of how you run your jib halyard when rigging to create a mechanical advantage in tensioning the halyard. Is there any type of system you use (without installing another cheek block on the mast) to create some extra leverage?

Thanks!

Are you asking about an Aussie halyard or the use of the old jib halyard? Aussie halyard has 2 blocks involved which provide mech. adv.
This link will lead you to the Hobie 16 assembly manual which on pg. 18 answers the question of how to use the old version.

http://www.hobiecat.com/support/products/sailboats/

Hey Chris...thanks for responding. I was referring to the Aussie Halyard. I know I have it set up on the 2 blocks correctly to raise the sail. What I was referring to was once the jib is raised, is there any type of system to thread the halyard line (other than around the cheek block and onto the cleat) that allows for some additional leverage/mechanical advantage when tensioning the halyard?

If you want to get the jib halyard tighter and you're unable to put enough tension on by simply pulling down on the line, you do what's known as "sweating" the halyard.

It's easiest to do this with two people. Put as much tension on the halyard as you can and then throw one wrap around the cleat. Have one person hand hold the halyard to keep it from slipping in the cleat. Then the other person grabs onto the vertical section of the halyard (the tensioned part running parallel to the mast) and pull the line horizontally away from the mast (kind of like you were loading an arrow into a bow and arrow). This will pull more tension onto the halyard. Then slowly ease the halyard back towards the mast while the first person takes up the slack at the cleat and then cleats off the halyard.

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The short answer is no.

The long answer is that no additional purchase is needed beyond the 3:1 provided by the stock and Aussie systems. The halyard doesn't need to be super tight - in fact, having it too tight will impede mast rotation.

There is a system that racers use to adjust jib halyard tension during a race, but it provides no additional mechanical advantage.