Foresail sheet diameter

What is the diameter of your jib/gennaker sheets?

Genoa is 12mm double braid
Code 0 / Spinnaker is 14mm double braid

This has all lines on our Knysna 500SE

K50_103 rigging schedule - lines from Sparcraft.pdf (140.8 KB)

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Don, thanks for the rigging list. I’m curious as to the note in the rigging schedule:

The Topping Lift in Spectra is a non-standard and has been specked for #91 so that used in conjuction with the appropriate tension on the main sheet traveller it can be used to replicate a back stay tensioner. This is to reduce load on the rigging when sailing downwind or when motoring into headwinds or when sailing close-hauled. The Topping lift is normally supplied in YACHTMASTER XS.

Why would you need to do this when “motoring into headwinds or when sailing close-hauled”? I can see motoring into big seas, but just headwinds? And how do you remember to do this?

Not sure, this was sent be Grant. May want to ask him.

I’m not sure who owns #91, Tourterelles is #97 and Don is the hull before us so looks like an old comment left on the rigging schedule. Ann