[quote=P.M.][quote=Edchris177][quote]Ed, I would be interested seeing that in the pictues.[/quote]
Here is a better shot, of how it should be rigged. This is not my boat, I think it's an old shot from Philip(MUMMP), but this is how I do it. Ignore the stuff on top of the block, just rig as per his green line. I think he was set up with another piece of line dead ended on the other side of the mast, that ran through the sail grommet. If you hook the "S" hook onto that line it doubles your purchase, but you don't want to do that on your 5.0. Those sails were not designed to suffer those kinds of downhauls. If you have to attach a cheek block or eye strap, plan it out, you will want the fittings as low on the mast as you can get them,(you can't go right to the bottom of the mast as the base extends about an inch up into the extrusion) as the stock 5.0 sail grommet sits quite low. Note how he has fitted the eye strap to the top hole of the cheek block.
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That was an old set up. Ed, you are correct. The white line with blue and red tracers indeed goes through the cringle and dead ends on the other side of mast. There are alot of different blocks you can set up to do this. In the picture I used a Fico fiddle block with jam cleat. Simple, minimum amount of hardware and effective.
Here is the picture with the description.
[url]http://www.thebeachcats.com/pictures/?g2_itemId=74293&g2_imageViewsIndex=1[/url]
I later upgraded to a stiffer mast section to match a PE15 high aspect ratio main sail, which required this for the downhaul.
[url]http://www.thebeachcats.com/pictures/?g2_itemId=18290&g2_imageViewsIndex=1[/url]
[quote=matt922]
The beam straps on the hulls that all round beam nacras seem to have... this 5.0 doesn't have them, is that something to worry about?[/quote]
Sounds strange. What's there? Remember the Nacra's have different size beam straps for the main beam and rear beam.<!-- editby --><em>Edited by mummp on Apr 16, 2013 - 09:44 PM.</em><!-- end editby --> [/quote]
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