Exactly Connie! You beat me to it. We have a quick release on the forestay also. Best thing since sliced bread :-) Rik chbenneck@juno.com wrote:
Hi Rick,
Glad to hear that you had such a wonderful sail.
M15s are great vessels!
But............... you seem to be suffering from the same problem I initially had. If you try and put the pin in the head stay, you have to get enough tension on it so that the holes line up.
If you don't; ................then you sweat and strain and get nowhere. ( unless you have the 200 pound gorilla leaning on the mast to give you some slack)
My mentor was a gentleman from Alaska who said, "Connie, go to your WEST catalog - and find: ' Quick Release Shroud Levers' - page 486 in my '99 copy of the catalog"
These levers allow you to hook up the fore stay - with slack - and then when you tension the lever, you have a tight fore stay.
It's a great improvement. Allows you to put the pin in the fore stay - no strain: no pain - and then you flip the lever and you have tension (and the lever is locked in place)
Wouldn't be without it!
Connie
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