I recently bought a roller furling kit from Hobie for my 1980 H16, it is a Harken setup, not the Hobie one. Does anyone have one of these setups? The instructions that came with it all showed pictures of the Hobie furling system. Should I take off the jib downhaul, jib block and jib halyard, the instructions did not say to. I figure I do not need them since the new furling jibs luff wire is the forestay, am I correct?
The way I started to set it up was with the new swivel pigtail attached to the 10 hole adjuster and the 10 hole adjuster connected to the large shackle,(shroud/forestay shackle)on the bottom of the mast tang. I disconnected the old jib halyard, block assembly and downhaul line, just by removing the upper pigtail from the shackle, but I did not remove it from the mast yet.
I also am curious as to why the jib has a line connected to the head which connects to the swivel instead of having a shackle, does this help with the furling?