Hi Chaps. Have had my beneteau oceanis 351 for 5 years now and when purchased the broker advised me to be quite particular with the in mast furling technique as get it wrong and the main would snag. I used his method carefully and had no problems for a while then problems started, eventually becoming so that it was 100% failure rate. During this time I made no changes to the rig whatsoever. So I assumed that the elvestrom main was ageing and becoming baggy. I purchased a brand new set of Hood sails and the problem still exists so now I have to look further.
I am concerned that there may be too much pre-bend in the mast and am at a slight loss as to how to correct this. For those unfamiliar with the type she has a forestay through the furling genoa and two back stays. One set of main shrouds with 2 sets of spreaders. Two sets of baby stays.
There is no obvious way of tensioning the forestay as the anchor point seems to be a set point (the roller arrangement is on chainplates).
Would easing off the backstays and front baby stays help if I then tension the aft pair of baby stays?
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