Quick Edit: Spoke with the seller of my new parts (best customer service experience I can remember and way more than anyone would expect from an Ebay seller...) and I need to take some measurements but think my mast may have been cut down slightly at the bottom in the past. This would explain why I needed to drill and tap new holes to the mast base when I first got it and the bottom of the mast was a little jagged where it meets the mast base. So this weekend I'll have a look at the mast, anyone have an extra non-comptip mast in SE Michigan, I might be in the market?
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Replaced my rigging as I had a mast come down last season and decided to upgrade to the aussie jib setup while I was at it.
I hear the forestay will be VERY slack but mine still seems excessive.
What do you think of the picture, this is with the jib fully tightened and the shrouds in the bottom hole.
Not sure how to embed photo so here is a link to my google photos:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3aSZhP5y1nmoQYDm7I probably should have put the forestay on the bottom chain plate for the picture, but there is still a lot of slack even when in the correct chain plate. Added the second to keep forestay out of jib when in use.
Bridle wires:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/141905837271Shrouds:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/131728669101Aussie jib/forestay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/131813055152I'd say there is a foot of slack in the picture and 6 inches when in the correct chain plate, do I have incorrect parts or incorrectly rigged?
Thanks.
1976 Hobie, original mast (non comptip).