[quote=bobcatnj]I'll chime in w/ some additional info on Dustin's post.
I set up my own righting system similar to the above using extra parts. I have the top of the "V" shaped line secured to the front crossbar with a Bowline. In the future I may upgrade to adding a padeye to either side of the crossbar to make it look better. For now I want to test it out before I spend any money on it.
The line is a portion of my old main sheet. I cut the old forestay pigtail off and reused the stainless ring and ran my main through the ring and secured the shock cord to the ring.
I added an old trap block to the rear crossbar with a padeye and ran my shockcord from the ring through the block to the DS rod. I secured it with just enough tension so that I can pull the righting line nearly parallel with the front crossbar. I figure this will allow me to fully hike out when trying to right the cat. I read somewhere that a bowline will hold in shockcord but I need to verify that. I played with it on the lawn and the setup is very simple and it seems to work and return to center every time.
I tool the remaining length of mainsheet and set up a traditional recovery line but added in some barrel knots for hand grips and a bowline loop at the very end so that you can put you foot in it to get back on board if you aren't the most nimble of people.
My overall cost was $4 for 2 rivets and a padeye. Everything else came out of the parts bin, You could as Dustin mentioned run a line from the traveler padeye but I opted for adding in another padeye so that the force is pulling in the same direction as the rivets versus some angle greater than 90*. I'm sure its strong enough attached to the traveler; but I had the crossbars off and for $4 I wanted to keep it neat.
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