Really, a tinker-er? That kinda hurt Dave.

Would someone with the tinker gene spend and entire after noon setting up a mast complete with a tapered main halyard?

I think not.....

Is that your setup Karl?

Yep.

Should we now discuss the value of a "Tinker's Damn" ?

As in, I don't give a...

;^)

Like the mast markings; but keep checking the numbers as the rigging will streach. Why the large dia main halyard? I'm using 2/5mm !

The mast has been rigged before, (Alter Cup boat), so the diamonds should stay pretty consistent. It doesn't seem to take too long for the diamond wires to stretch in. I don't know what you mean by big diameter. It's a 3mm tapered with a 5mm cover.

Like Scooby, I use 2.5mm untapered (Kevlar in my case) so I can't see the point in tapering it - in fact I couldn't taper what I have,

My Spi halyard is Tapered 2.5mm to 5mm.

Isn't that the definition of a tinker-er Karl?

We all tinker, but there are those that tinker and those of us that have completely lost their mind... you my friend are flirting with the latter. I know that might sting a little but I only say these things because I care. Does every crack whore start out with the goal of becoming a crack whore?

"I wanna be stuck in middle management" was my answer during career day at elementary school.

The tapered main halyard is weird. The sail goes up and down very nicely, I will say that it is better than any of the other boats I've had. Locking the ring is just strange though. I have to rotate the mast to get it to lock, and also to unlock it. Before I just pulled it up, it went "click" and I stowed the halyard. I don't have to rotate it very far either, which is strange.

I also need to slip a few bits of line inside the dyneema in a couple of places to keep it in the mast. I had a halyard sneaking out of the luff track on Saturday racing, but it didn't happen Sunday, so it may have been an isolated incident.