| I was looking closely at the rigging last week and noticed the backstay was very loose. |
| Adjust the lateral rigging in accordance with the instructions before leaving the dockside, tension the backstay, and then check under sail. |
| To reduce normal weather helm loosen the backstay bottlescrew and tighten the forestay bottlescrew. |
| The rig is a simple deck-stepped mast-head sloop with single upper shrouds and spreaders, double lower shrouds and split backstay. |
| The backstay tension is adjusted using some form of tensioning device to control mast-bend and forestay tension. |
| The bobstay, forestay and one running backstay were made up by my local chandler from the drawings below. |
