running rigging

I'm starting to work through some of the running rigging. I replaced the sails last year, and a few of my older Sta‑Set lines are definitely end‑of‑life. My sailmaker (he's not a rigger but does race) suggested that, to really get the most out of the new sail shape, I should look at UHMWPE‑cored...

New sailor here and I’m trying to figure out the rigging setup for the outhaul (or what I believe is the outhaul?) on my 1971 E-27. Although I have a couple hundred photos after going through the process of replacing the standing rigging and rebedding all the thru deck hardware, somehow I don’t...

We‘ve been using the main sheet set-up as it came with the boat, but it seems to me there are too many points of friction along the main sheet path. We have a rigid vang (gerhauer) and a boom brake/preventer (Walder), all from PO. The main sheet leaves its pulley system at the traveler and runs...