that wire, if secured to the backstay with a Nicro-Press sleeve (common) is a source of weakeness in the middle of your backstay cable. Yoy may find, on close inspection , that the lay of the 1by19 backstay cable is very distorted due to the comrpession keeping the fitting in place. IF you must have a short backstay hung pennent, perhaps its better to secure it to the backstay with one of those little 'Johnson' brand flag halyard cleats that has and eye in one end for a pennant or block.
Better still is a real toppinglift, and then a pennent off the stern quarter cleat , or somewhere, that the mainsheet can pull the boom in against and stablize that way...or gallows.
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Brian Duff
BVI Yacht Sales, Tortola
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