Understanding Mast Rake - shortening the forestay on Paikea

We're playing with our forestay in this episode. When we replaced our front beam over 2 years ago, we changed the geometry a little. The issue was we couldn't find a scrap piece of carbon mast big enough to span the width of Paikea. We came up with a solution to use two smaller pieces connected to a central longeron/bowsprit piece. We also angled the entire arrangement upwards a fraction to lift the front section away from the water. The bows Catana42s slope down towards the water and we wanted to lift the trampoline and beam higher up. The issue we then had was that our forestay was now a fraction too long for the new setup. The longer forestay meant that our mast leaned backward more than it did before. In other words, we now had too must mast rake. In order to fix the problem we had to buy a new forestay or shorten the existing one to fit. As we are running our upgrades on a budget and it seemed wasteful to throw away a perfectly good stay that was relatively new, we decided to shorten what we had. It did prove a bit tricky to find someone in the Caribbean who was capable and willing to take on the swaging job for us. We ended up finding a great rigging shop called FKG in Sint Maarten and finally got the mast rake where we wanted it. For more information on this video check out our blog - https://youngbarnacles.com/youtube/ Join the discussion on our forums https://youngbarnacles.com/forums/forum/youtube-discussion-and-feedback/ Join our Membership Site - https://youngbarnacles.com/plans/all-access-memberships/ Want to say thanks? Buy us a coffee https://youngbarnacles.com/link-landing-page/ Click subscribe if you enjoyed this video and press that bell button if you would like to be notified every time we upload something new