Prepare for multiple threads!!!
took the boat out for the first time and it was great. Nothing broke! (this is not surprising from the boat's perspective, I just seem to break things maybe a small ding in the gel coat from being stupid though

I take it you have to take the mast step off to get to the internal downhaul line that comes out of the mast to go to the sail right? Previous owner has a knot tied to a piece of spectra that then goes through the block. Don't trust any more knots than absolutely necessary on probably the highest load item on the boat. I would prefer to run a piece of spectra with an eye splice to the block inside the mast then out to the block on the sail to the cleat.