The following slides show a few key aspects of the rig setup for the feva (with some comments)

The only way you will achieve small rig adjustments and the same tension on each shroud is to replace the shroud plate with the one shown to the left. It has smaller adjustments. See how the quick pins are tied in so you never lose one!

It is a little difficult to see, but the shroud eye goes through 2 pins. This means if the breeze drops you can easily drop the rig forward by simply removing the lower pin.

Tapered kite sheets are a must! They mean less weight on the clew of the kite, making it fly better in lighter winds. 5mm tapered to 2.5mm is about right. The bike inner tubes make easy cheap covers for the shroud plates.

The righting line threaded through the handle at the back stops it dropping into the water. Remember the retaining line on the rudder.

The luff tension rope at the head of the jib should be replaced for some thin non stretch rope as shown. It should be altered for each wind strength and therefore should be calibrated!

See how neat the attachments should look! The strop for the jib halyard shroud be exactly the right length and neat!

The jib tie down rope should be tied tight to the bar and with a knot that doesn’t slip at all!!! If it does, it will really affect the tension in the rig and how you point!!

See the locations of the tell tales on the main! Downwind, use the bottom two to set the mainsheet and the top two to set the kicker.

The strops should be spliced for easy adjustment. (they should also be calibrated for the different rig settings, which these aren’t,,, yet!!!)

The strops should be set so that when you pull max main on, you get the perfect leach tension – see your coach for help on this!

This is a brilliant and neat way of attaching the kicker.

One of the Olympic sailors helping me show that the kite sheets should be long enough to allow the crew to get right to the back of the boat, but not so long that they increase the likelihood of knots!

The short part of the kicker system (the bit you don’t pull!) should be short enough so that the system does not max out when you pull on enough kicker. This is a lot of kicker as shown that will bend the boom!

The outhaul system should be set with an easy to use handle as shown. (for me personally I would have a bobble/knot that will hit the block when the outhaul is out the most it will be) A nice simple outhaul system here with slippy d12 rope.

A tight elastic through the clew eye of the sail so that when the outhaul is released it fires into position!

A simple bobble system for the clew tie down. Never comes undone and low friction with the d12 rope.

A really simple kite sheet take-up system that needs to be at right length so that you don’t get knots but also so that it isn’t so tight that it pulls on the foot of the kite.