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I called a friend about your tension. He said to get your mast straight and simply use a tensioning tool to make everything snug. He also said to make sure you're not "bagging" your sail by using too little outhaul tension or too much cunningham, as well as snug down your boom vang.
Start with 165 lbs of pressure on each wire, then take your upper shrouds to 10% of breaking strength (check with some place like west marine on your line strengths) and the diagonals to 15%. Then put your stays up to 10% on each one, fore and back. this lets you now tune to 15% on the back if you want that 1 to 2" of rake, but Jim says "just get it straight until you want to race it".
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