Here it is.


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I take no credit (good or bad) for the design - I inherited from the previous owner. It has worked exceedingly well for me the past two years.

For the spin halyard/retrieval, the brown portion is on top, the orange portion underneath. For tack line, purple portion (nearly 100% bungie) is underneath. Orange bungie (tied to ring, going through block at stbd side of rear beam, to center block, around dolphin striker and then tied off at the port padeye) is always providing some take-up tension. Purple one changes based on tack position.

Key point is having as much bungie length as possible to allow maximum take-up distance without too much residual tension.

One other thing that is important - when rigging, the only line that is below (closer to the water) than the tack/hal/ret lines is the righting line. Everything else is above (closer to the tramp) to avoid possible entanglement issues.