Rigging Calculations for Allied Princess Ketch coming up odd

[svaletheia]

Hi Brian, I completely understand being busy at this point.

Just wanted to run the idea of re-rigging to 5/16ths rather than 9/32nd (there seems to be no ability to contact either the original designer nor can I find consensus about what the proper wire size is amongst the owners) and go to a single forestay as you mentioned. I'm about to buy the materials and don't want to jeopardize my rig. On the other hand, if I can safely go that 1/32 larger, I would much rather do that since I'm hoping to take this boat into high latitudes in the not-too-distant future and if that does in fact give me the safety margin it seems to, it would be quite useful.

Much appreciation for your forum here.