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[quote=MN3]Were you furled or sailing with the jib? sounds like you were lacking forestay tension it should be snug in medium air and as the saying goes "the more she blows the tighter it goes" (stay tension) it is kind of tough to gauge the correct tension and near impossible to have it at optimal tension per any wind condition and as you know, we have very variable weather here - what you rig in will probably not be what you sail in at the end of the day - so we set our tension somewhere in the middle of what we have and what we expect. but at no time should your entire forestay go into heavy oscillation - you are knocking the air off your sail and it's not good for your air flow on the main, plus probably educing some drag Pros and serious racers use a loos gauge to keep it (and diamond wires) set to known optimal settings for each wind condition next time you rig ask one of us regulars to check your tension (despite being nice, do not ask the old guy in the short shorts (ed) who's wife speaks with a heavy latvian accent (ace: aka - grandma in latvian) who helped you rig last week - he doesn't have the knowledge despite owning a few cats trap wires seem to be magnetically attracted to side stays for some reason and love to wrap eachother around eachothery usually, you can simply pull the trap handle aft and it should un wrap. unless you untie your trap wires or side stays during tear-down, there really is no way for them to actually get "tied" together (although it seems to happen from time to time)<!-- editby --><em>Edited by MN3 on Nov 14, 2017 - 09:20 AM.</em><!-- end editby --> [/quote]

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