You can use the stock jib you have, you just have to cut the clew off and get the 5 hole clew plate which shortens it up enough to clear the self tacker gear. This was how everyone did it when the self tacker was first introduced(2001/2002). I have a set of the clew plates which I never installed around somewhere, as well as a used non-self tacking jib and maybe a self tacking one also. The jibs may have evolved to be different now but it wasn't for the self tacker.


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