bad vibes

[gstej]

Apologies for the long absence but I wanted to provide an update on this. It seems that most of the problem has gone away by simply positioning our main halyard a couple inches away from our mast.

We were able to go sailing and do some more homework. I believe our forestay may be loose as he bottom toggle appeared to go slack for a moment bobbing down a wave. We do not have a baseline for our forestay tension and had been paranoid about overtensioning, but after observing our last sailI think it needs more tension. We have a furler but are unsure the best method to determine the correct tension to add short of removing the furling drum.

I thought I accomplish this by viewing mast rake and tensioning the backstay, but at this point I am still a bit confused how to proceed.