I agree that you could make it very complicated. But I wouldn’t recommend that path for a beginner sailor who needs sails right away, as is the case with the OP.Well, true ... you can make it as easy as you like if you ignore all the options made by the full variety of sailmakers in cloth and cut. I'm just suggesting that there is way more to it than that if you really want to make the decisions yourself rather than just farm it out to CD to select the builder's standard made by Ullman for you. The builder's standard is probably good enough for 95% of the sailors. I would recommend looking at the Ullman website to see my point. CD appears to offer the standard dacron cross-cut sail, which is fine depending upon your interest, or lack of interest in the sails.
Not intended, in any way, to suggest it won't work. I apologize. Perhaps I should have titled the post "here's another good way to rig a jib downhaul."Well it worked just fine for me....
Perhaps the post title was misleading. I didn't want to say "don't rig a jib downhaul", I just meant to suggest a couple of small improvement changes that have worked for me the past 20 years. 1. tie dh line to first hank below headboard. 2. no need to interlace line 3. use small diam. line 5/32 or 1/8..... but, by all means, a jib downhaul.....like a tiller pilot.... will make your single handing experience vastly better.Why not ? I know many folks who singlehand with this setup
I agree on the 1/8th" line. I also used a light line.Perhaps the post title was misleading. I didn't want to say "don't rig a jib downhaul", I just meant to suggest a couple of small improvement changes that have worked for me the past 20 years. 1. tie dh line to first hank below headboard. 2. no need to interlace line 3. use small diam. line 5/32 or 1/8..... but, by all means, a jib downhaul.....like a tiller pilot.... will make your single handing experience vastly better.