New rigging?

We started working on the staysail stay this morning which involves removing the forestay (foil still attached) and laying it out on the dock.  As soon as we had the old stay on the dock we realized we had a problem!

The old head fitting is different than the new one we got from Seco South.  Not a big deal as the new wire is long enough but I will have to order a new double jaw toggle or have the old fitting cut off and a new jaw toggle installed.  I'm going with a new double jaw toggle.

Turns out that the head stay already has one of these attached so once we finish both fore stays will be configured the same.


Once we have the new fitting we will pull the old wire out of the foil, pull in the new wire, mark and cut (after measuring 5 times) the new wire, install the new Norseman stud terminal, reassemble the furling unit and pull everything back up the mast.


Rigging on this boat has been quite interesting!