This is a pic of my extra forestay which I put in during the refurbishment. I had already added the extra hound on the previous haulout just above the original but had not constructed the forestay, just mucked about with a bit of poly as a test. It has a turnbuckle adjuster as shown and the only trick was getting the stay length just right when swaging so that after adjustment the two forestays are roughly the same tension. It is shackled to a new hole drilled just above the anchor roller and does not foul the sail used on the furler . As Ian has said, this means if I fall foul of a furler malfunction (try saying that after 4 Barefoot Radlers) I can remove the mess and the mast stays up.
Not an expensive exercise but adds a little more peace of mind. They are parallel but the pic's perspective does not look that way. Some excellent rust marks on the jib
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