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[quote=Quarath]If you figure it out with the furler it is worth having it. I am note sure I can be much help as mine is completely jury rigged and is a Hobie furler. Unless he gave you the forestay rigging to run it without the furler you may not have enough length to rig without it.

Pics will help.
I can only tell you how I have it on my Prindle 18
On my P18 the upper swivel is shackled to the mast hound then shackled tot he upper forestay with standard Prindle pigtail for the Jib halyard then shackled to the lower forestay. Lower Prindle forestay has a turnbuckle that I have shackled to the adjust the slides into the center of the Hobie furler. ( the Harken would attach to chain plate adjuster of some sort ) I raise my Jib as you normally would and hook it in the ring. Then on the furler I have a small shackle with 3/16 line that goes up through the grommet and back to the shackle to apply down haul. Then back through the grommet and into the cleat on the jib. After that I usually go down the back of the cleat and back through the grommet to find a place to tie the excess out of the way. I then disconnect halyard sister clip and tied off excess halyard out of the way. these have to be tied off above the furling unit.  I need to shorten my jib halyard a little bit to avoid this and once you know what you need eliminate as much of the excess Jib down haul as you can.

I realize this might not help much on your boat but you never know. I need to document this conversion with pics and get it in the gallery.[/quote]

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