[quote=nacra55][quote=canadian_catamaran][quote=nacra55][quote]I recently got a Nacra 5.2 on a whim (no experience sailing cats, but have owned 25ft monohulls).
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If the boat in the picture is your 5.2, you may want to look for a Nacra 6.0 manual, that's not a 5.2 in the picture.[/quote]
lol really? how do you know? I was sold a 5.2... the seller thought it was a 5.2... I've measured it and dimensions seem like a 5.2..[/quote]
More pictures bring more questions. Things that I thought were strange
Don't know that any 5.2's had finished sterns, only the 6.0 had them, 5.5 and 5.8 were both unfinished.
Don't think the 5.2 originally had a main traveler track that went all the way to the ends of the beam early designs, 5.2 and original 5.8 did not. 5.5 and 6.0 did.
Don't think any of the 5.2's originally had swept spreaders many were converted.
Your main beam is rigged for an over rotator but your mast has a rotation limiter which is run off the boom.
No need for an over rotator on a boom boat.
Mighty fancy downhaul for a 5.2.
On to some rigging questions.
The pic with the blue circle looks like the forestay and the jib halyard may be reversed, forestay should be above the jib halyard, that's a huge block up there. Most old school nacra jib halyards are part wire and need a wire block, not one for line but your halyard may be all line.
Also the thimble that you're trying to connect to the bridle should be connected to the hounds and the aircraft swedge should be connected to the adjuster fork that is connected to the bridle wire with a pin and ring ding not a shackle, rigged like your shrouds.
Your bridle wires may be upside down also, the aircraft swedge should be connected at the bridle tang the thimble should be connected to adjuster fork with a twist shackle if memory serves me right.
There's a start.
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