Sounds like a costly production regardless of whether I can get a few parts cheap from a friend or not.

I think I'll hold off on this, for a while anyway. It's not a hugely important upgrade but a convenience thing.

The jib sheet gets hung up on the mast and rigging sometimes when I tack. Kind of annoying and doesn't make for a smooth transition.

I like my friends Hobie 16 for the fact that there are tracks (travelers?) for the jib up at the front cross bar. With the pulleys out front there, the jib sheet rarely binds on anything. Plus, he said it allows for more tweaking of the jib. Locking the pulleys in on a close haul and letting them go all the way out downwind

(please excuse the improper terms, I'm still learning them)

I was looking for that part I bent taking down my mast and noticed that some of the newer Nacra's have a traveler/track up there too. Talked about it with Turbocat and he said that it was something that I could rivet to my existing cross bar (terminology?)

Sounds like a better bang for my buck

Last edited by DangerMouse; 07/21/08 09:12 AM.