Hi guys. I am a young sailor, who started on a sunfish, after that was destroyed on the beach by hurricaine irene, i had an opportunity to buy a daysailer 3, and wish to eventually buy even bigger. however, i have questions about how to utilize the outhaul, and boom vang.
please feel free to help with either or both of the questions
first the outhaul, there are two eyelets in the rear of the boom, and the rope attached to the clew of the mainsail is fairly long. there is also a cleat about 2/3rds of the way back up the boom on the port side. am i just supposed to run the line through the eyelet and tie it off to the cleat or am i missing some equipment?
The boat came with a boom vang that the previous owner never utilized, there is a clear place on the boom to attach the vang, but no place on the mast. what would be a good way of attaching? there is a pully on that side.
also there is a line attached to the gooseneck, that looks like it goes down into a clam cleat on the mast to keep the boom from slipping up when there is pressure on the sails. does that make sense?