We sailed her for about 5 minutes and she still had a slight lee helm. So, we lengthened the forestay by about 4 turns before leaving the dock. Redwing's rig was out of tune, because I had changed some hardware. Dave and I did it about three times in an hour earlier in the summer when we decided to re-tune the rig on our P-19 'Redwing'. You can do it at the dock with the mast up, which is necessary when tuning the rig to have the right amount of weakther helm. It's not hard to adjust the forestay length inside the CDI, even when the mast is up. Adjusting the forestay length inside a CDI Furler Manuals can be downloaded at Disclaimer: This procedure works for the way our CDI. Read the Owner's manual for your CDI Furler. Read the disclaimer! Get the right tools together. Before you start, review the owner's manual for your model CDI. Here's how we do with Redwing's CDI model FF1. The specs indicate 1/4' furling line but the write-up in the section covering the furling drum/furling line install states a 1/4' or smaller line is recommended. The manual I have from PO is a July '94 CDI 4/6 Manual.
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