Some alternatives :



On the several F16's we use a trick here. We just tie a loop in the upper part of this line and through it over the top of the mast. This loop then hangs off the mainsail hook fitting. You have to route your mainsail halyard over this loop but that is not a biggy. Several of us have been using this for several years now and it hold up great. Saves you drilling two more holes in your mast that can eventually leak. Make sure the loop is relatively large so it hangs downward off the hook fitting alongside the mast.




I use (and several others) 3 mm plain dyneema for all the support lines. 4 mm dyneema for the halyard/retrieveal line and some sort of swiftcord for the sheet line. But for the latter there are indeed alot of alternatives.



I think the grommet in the trampoline caused relatively alot of friction so I have stitches a small block underneath my trampoline just at the rear of the snuffer bag. Another block is attached on my port mainbeam just next to the opening between the hull, my trampoline and the mainbeam. Naturally I lead the retrieval line through these blocks and like that it passes from underneath my tramp to above my tramp. The partion above the tramp I lead through a large stainless steel ring that is tied to a bungee cord coming from the startboard rearbeam (more like a attachement point on the tramp near it). After the retrieval line run through that it goes straight the the cleat on my mainbeam. As such the retrieval line makes a large V on top of my trampoline. Works great.




Wouter