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[quote=yurdle]The tack of the jib is attached to the chainplate that connects the bridles via one of these brackets:
http://www.murrays.com/56-9890.html

Use a short ( < 1") clevis pin to connect the bracket to a hole (your choice which) on the top of the chainplate.  The holes should be aligned so that looking through the center of them points fore and aft, not side to side. This will orient the bracket such that in the pic @ murray's, you'd be looking at (towards) the port side of the boat, with the bows pointing left, and the jib coming up and away from the bracket to the right.

Typically I leave the bracket on the boat (not the jib) when not in use.

Then attach the grommet at the tack of the sail to the bracket with another clevis pin.

The sail halyard runs straight up the forestay, through a block at the top of the forestay, and then back down the mast.  The jib zipper only goes around the forestay, not the halyard as well.

The halyard comes down the port side of the mast, and should have a bullet block or equivalent on the end of it (usually a bullet with a becket, so that you can tie a pigtail to the becket).

Towards the base of the mast on the port side you should have a clam-cleat and an eyelet close to each other.  You want a short line, ~24" IIRC, tied to the eyelet, which will act as your jib luff tension-er..

When you hoist the jib, you pull the halyard down via the pigtail (any old 3/16 sta-set works great), then when you have it all the way up, the block at the end of the halyard should be down to about a couple feet above the tramp.  Untie & remove the pigtail from the block's becket (and don't let go..), take the tensioner line that is tied to the eyelet and run it up through the block and back down to the clam-cleat.  This gives you a 2:1 purchase on the tension of your jib luff.

For the sheet, you just rig it the same as any other overlapping cat jib sheet.  The slot can be really tight on the 5.2, depending how the jib blocks are attached, but I think a search will turn up plenty of posts on that.

LMK if that helps or not.

Rob[/quote]

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