My wife and I bought an '89 O'Day Daysailer 3 as a first sailboat. We did not get a chance to see it rigged up before we brought it home, so there has been quite a learning curve with the rigging. With a lot of videos and a bit of trial and error, we've got the jib and the mainsail up and rigged. However, we do have two issues:
1. There doesn't seem to be a traveller. All the boats we see online seem to have one.
2. We cannot figure out how to rig up the boom vang. It's a complicated mess of line and blocks.
We have two pieces of rigging like this. It has blue line with a block on one end and a plastic clip on the other. It has thicker white line with a block on the end that the blue line is running through.
Every boom vang we see online has an attachment or block at the base of the mast. Here's what we have:
Likewise, every boom vang we see online has an attachment hanging off the bottom of the boom. Where we think it should go, we have attachments on the sides of the boom:
Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated.
Apologies for the size of the images, I could not figure out how to resize them.