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On Sep 9, 2020, at 4:13 PM, Graham Stewart <gstewart8 at cogeco.ca> wrote:

Graham,

The slider is held in its various positions by a hair pin clip that inserts thru holes drilled thru the mast track.  I always keep the hair pin clip in place to hold the slider down no matter whether I have tension on the boom vang &/or Cunningham or not.  S/V Dynamic Equilibrium came rigged with the boom vang and Cunningham downhaul when I purchased her.  I don’t know if a previous owner drilled and tapped the pop top slider for the eye strap.  Or, maybe back in 1976, Stan might have offered a “performance mainsail package” that included a boom vang and Cunningham.  There is also an eye strap drilled and tapped into the underside of the boom for the top anchor point on the boom vang.  It all looks pretty professional if they are homemade and they both serve their mainsail shaping functions perfectly.  Both the boom vang and Cunningham must be removed to raise the pop top.  With snap shackles, installing and removing them is not a big deal.  A word of caution, all this hardware on the leading edge of the pop top can chip the fiberglass if they get to banging around.  I solved this problem by epoxying 10 gage SS sheet metal to the sides and the top of the pop top near the pointy end where it attaches to the pop top slider.

Roger Pihlaja
S/V Dynamic Equilibrium

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