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John Eaton
 Post subject: 16 jib setup
PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:53 pm 
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Notice the "aparatus" holding the forestay off the luff and sail?

How did they do that? Is it worth it?

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its a piece of shock cord, we add to keep the forestay from being lose and messing up the jib. I think it is worth doing.

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OK, I'm with you on the shock cord to pull tension on the forestay.

How is this done?

What's that 6" or so piece perpindicular to the sail?

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It looks like they have added and extra 7 or 10 hole adjuster, we use to do this on older boat before that made the forestay longer, some people still do it to give a little more length simply so they can have a little extra to shock cord back down. The stock forestay is long enough but its hard to get it pulled back off the sail.

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