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Hello,
I have been around this barn a few times. The B&R is meant to be bent; that was Lars' intent. But the demographics of Hunter ownership has slid things almost exclusively into in-mast furling, which is most intolerant of bending. The standard recommendation is less than 2" of bend along the entire mast length. This is a fairly arbitrary number, but you get the idea.
Getting a sufficiently straight stick is tricky, at least if you want to avoid overloading some of the components. There's way more to this than I could possibly go into here, but the short form is: back everything off, and gradually work up the opposing wires -- some are trying to induce bend, some to arrest bend -- keeping the stick as straight as you can without exceeding 10% or so in load on anything. And keep clear of whoever "tuned" this rig in the first place.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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