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Here are the fore sail control lines. Notice the fairleads, very handy in the dark when you want to pull on the correct line. Without them things tended to get a bit tangled up.

Oh, there are a few extra cleats there. Initially we tied off the halyards and sheets there. Could not afford the winches then and was not clever enough to add the line cams for the sheets. We keep the halyard on the winches and the sheet in the cams now. Rarely do we raise the sails entirely with the winches, it would take a long time. Usually they are used to crank the sails back up after reefing, or just topping up in varying conditions. The pressure of the sails on the mast makes it a hell of a pull without them. I highly recommend them. These are single speed, self tailing Andersons, and are completely adequate.

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