Installing The Ling Forestay System

Installing the long forestay system on the Folli is a relatively simple procedure. If you have the current forestay you will notice that the swaging fitting that goes into the forked end is not all that large. My long forestay from Emmeti was exactly 19 inches longer. The end fitting is the same. See the picture below showing the size of the end.

First you will need to cut your current rake wire back where it attaches near the skipper. A lot of the newer Folli's are coming with a the rake attached to a sta-master in the bottom of the boat and eliminating the rope purchase back to the skipper. If you are considering making the rake change to the sta-master this would be a good time as you are going to cut your rake wire. 

Attach a feeder line to it the wire and pull it to the bow accessing it thru the inspection port at the front. After getting the feeder line to the bow, but before the feeder tubes at the very front of the bow, untie it and pull the rake wire completely out. Next refeed the rake wire thru the feeder tube at the bow just under the deck and reattach to the feeder line and pull it back. 

In order to fit the new forestay thru the deck you will need to slightly enlarge the hole at the bow. I used a dremel which took about 5 minutes. You will now be able to attach the forestay to the rake wire underneath the deck with the same pin and ring.

Make sure that you use some type of hook (We used a shackle) in order to allow the jibstay under the deck to go forward making attaching the forestay much easier.  With the mast forward I was able to connect the two very easily.

Depending on your setup you will need to make some adjustments to the jib Cunningham and halyard systems in order to get the proper new height. 

The newer boats are also coming with a bridal system that attaches to the front inspection port that leads to a bungee back in the boat, this allows quick access to the bow without using the screws.  Some pictures below detail the setup:

If you are interested in this getting this front inspection port system complete with port, bridal line and bungee with attachment drop us an email as we have Folli making a bunch of these up for us but don’t have pricing yet.