I have been working on this old Nacra 5.2 to try to get it in running condition. It is a 1982 boat with the old mast base and the post in the middle of the boat. It was a saltwater cat so there is alot of corrosion but overall it is in a good shape... so far.

I have a question that puzzles me:

How to you setup the jib on this thing anyways.

I have two steel wires that run from the front crossbar to the rear crossbar. They are installed on fixed fairlead on the front crossbar and they are not attached at the back but I have bolted fairleads in the rear crossbeam.

I tried to attach one of them to the rear fairlead with very small shackle but the wires is loose.

I was thinking about running the eye of the wire look into the fairlead but it is almost impossible to bolt it back after that BUT it seems that the wire have exactly the right lencht for that

Right now, I am thinking about a few things but I am not really sure that it is going to work.


If anybody could give me some information about this setup, it would really help

see these two attachments for the 1982 boat I used to own. I added a roller cleat at the rear beam to give me quick fore and aft adjustment on the jib blocks - the previous method was a fixed rope tied at the rear cable attachment point and to the block. I understand that a later modification was to reinstall these cables in a V shape so as you moved the blocks forward, it also moved the blocks mroe outboard.

the boat wasn't quite as clean in this one

I have a Nacra 5.2 1981-82... but the odd thing is my block wire is run under the tramp. The Tramp has a small slit where the jib pops through.

I just set it and forget it. I'd post a pic, but my boat is two hours away right now.