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[quote=klozhald][quote=tnell]Saltydog has a package with 5/16 (8mm) which seems a little small.[/quote]
A lot of beachcats came with 5/16" Dacron jibsheet line from the factory. 
All Prindles, the later Hobies and most NACRAs.
Don't be afraid to use it.

I still use 5/16" dacron in the stock jib blocks on my cat. In heavy air there is a technique to snapping out the sheet, but it is easily learned as long as you set up the cleats on the jib blocks to be higher than the angle in which it normally sits. 
This way when you pull on the line, it is already starting to come out of the cleat, and when you snap the wet, heavy dacron line it pops out.

The Oxen blocks Nacraman57 suggests are awesome, and are about $300 each.
To keep them in top shape you will have them rebuilt as Nacraman57 mentions, which adds to the cost.
He uses the largeer line in the Oxen blocks because the sheaves are that wide at the opening. As the texture in the sheave wears out, he uses smaller line that goes deeper into the sheave to where the texture is still intact.[/quote]

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