New Inter forestay

[knothead]

Originally Posted by Neptunes Violin

I did extensive net search on this matter before you posted since I am wanting to install an inner forestay too. You are lucky because you already have connection strongpoints in place; I don't.

Best I could find was two separate articles: one said the inner forestay is normally two sizes smaller than the main forestay. The other said it should be one size smaller.

Okay, so the next question is: what constitutes a "size". Question is further complicated because we do have both metric and imperial sizes in the marketplace. But if we go from say 5/16 down to 9/32, is that a change of one size? or would a change of one-sixteenth represent a change of one size"?

In my opinion, for a 41' boat, one sixteenth should contitute one size. A thirtysecond this way or that way won't matter a damn.

Imperial wire sizes are in increments of 32nds of an inch. Metric wire sizes are by the millimeter.