well the reason that I ask is because I recently added the furling hardware to the forestay setup that of course, added length to the setup. When I went to have the forestay shortened, I told the guy to shorten "about 4 inches." I will refrain from making lude jokes, but his idea of 4 inches is a bit, well, short. He pretty much just chopped off the eye, and re-nico'd it.



VERY unscientific. I REALLY wish that there was just some angle at which I knew to rake the mast.