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Originally posted by mike ellis ok i think i understand. its easy to bend feva masts with the kiker, never realy tried to bend it forward with the jib, never seems nesecary.

no no you misunderstand me, a bit of jib luff tension is faster in my opinion, when it gets breezy. I was trying to get some more luff tension (pulling hard on the halyard) and the mast which obviously gets pulled forward by the jib luff inverted all of a sudden.  I then decided a little less tension was required!

Originally posted by mike ellis feva masts are pretty strong, having said that we did break ours today but it is old and coroded. agreed on the jib luff thing though, dont do it with the halyard though, do it with the bit of string on the bow, the halyard on a feva is the forestay and the bit of string that ties the tack down does the luff tension.

if the tack is as tight as it can be to the front the only way to get more tension on is the halyard, and the configuration of our club fevas means that the jib luff is the forestay, so if you tighten the luff, you tighten the forestay no matter which bit of string you pull.

(if you cant make sense of what i am saying, don't worry, i can't either )

I thin ours are pretty much the simplest ones you can get, they are only really used for traning afterall.