Thanks for all your help and advise. I took a hobie 16 sailing course about three years back and it is all coming back really quickly except for some of the finer points of rigging the boat. Are some years of boats rigged with different hardware than other boats or are there different ways each sailor might personally rig their boat? I ask because there are parts and lines and different things that I have no recolection of when I sailed 16s in the past.