First thing to remember is that Gremlins live inside the front beam... be very cautious
With that warning out of the way, the best way to get your bungee back is probably to take the endcaps off, then pull the bungee all the way through the beam to the opposite side from where you lost it. Then, attach it to a batten and feed it back through.
Inside your front beam you should have a double block on each end tied to vertical post inside the beam. There are three lines/bungees in there:
1. Jib sheet bungees (two)- dead end one end of bungee to vertical post, go through the beam to the bottom of the double block, then back through the beam and tie off to one end of jib sheet. Repeat for other side.
2. cunningham and bungee- We run a continuous downhaul that is lead out to the crew trapeze. each end of the cunningham line has a small eye splice that allows us to tie it together with opti sail tie, then untie to derig. I will try to make a picture of the layout... don't want to describe it.
3. Crew trap bungee- straight through beam
This year I rigged the 'crew trap cunningham' Jeff specified for both the trap *and* the jib, then spliced the jib sheet to make a continuous loop. Now I don't have to be very concerned with balancing the jib sheet length when we race. I recommended if you can sort out the beam gremlins accordingly. With the splice it's sort of a permanent, un-riggable feature, though.
Considering rigging a continuous downhaul line that can be de-rigged/re-rigged easily this year. I have a pretty simple idea that will prob work pretty nicely, but have not tried it out.
