John,
I just noticed your post about the "conventional" way to rig a jib on a Wave. And I don't know whether Rick really answered that, because he was telling you a better and different way to do it.

What you have on your boat does not sound in any way normal. The basic Wave has a forestay and two sidestays that all come from the same point on the mast. The forestay comes down and attaches to a very high bridle that attaches to the bows. The point at which the bridle meets the forestay is way too high for the tack of a jib.

So when you get the jib kit for the Wave, it includes a round tubular, black anodized crossbar that goes across in front between the bows. It has a little eyestrap in the middle of it. That is where the tack of the jib attaches. The forestay does NOT run through the luff of the jib.

For the jib halyard you have a little block up there on the mast where the other stuff is, and the halyard runs through that little block. All you do is attach the tack of the jib to the eyestrap in the middle of the front crossbar between the bows, attach the halyard to the head of the jib, raise the sail, and cleat it to one of the cleats at the bottom of the mast. Totally simplistic.

Unfortunately, because of the fact that the jib is not attached to the forestay in any way, the luff of the jib tends to sag off, and there is really no way to keep it tight enough. But Hobie Cat did not provide this jib option with performance in mind -- it was just to give another person on the boat something to do. A factory representative told me several years ago that they were surprised to find that the jib actually increased the boat's speed by 10 percent.

It sounds like the person you bought the boat from was doing some creative rigging to try to make the jib more efficient. Or else he just did not know how it was intended to be rigged and overcomplicated it. Or else none of the stuff is from the factory, and he made it all up from scratch. Sounds like it is not a factory spreader bar in the front. And sounds like the jib is not a stock Wave jib. And it sounds like he has modified the entire forestay rigging.