When you apply vang tension on a mainsail’s boom, what are you trying to accomplish?
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Congratulations to Denny DeMillo of Stuart, FL who correctly answered last week’s question. “The D1 is the diagonal stay that runs from a chain plate at deck level to a tang under the first set of spreaders on the mast. Diagonal one.”