Does anyone here have experience with rigging Naish race sails? I recently bought an '07 Stealth 7.6 and am having some difficulty. It seems stupidly hard to get the cams on the mast (Naish 75% sdm), especially the bottom 2. I dodgied up a rig winch to be able to put enough downhaul on (no shops here and I didn't want to wait a few days) and I ended up tearing the outer sheath off my downhaul rope. I managed to get it all together after taking the cam spacers out but it was still really hard to get the bottom two cams on. The top one went on by itself and is not actually touching the mast properly now so obviously I need some spacers here. Does any of this sound normal?
Here are a few pics of how it set. It seems like the mid leech is really loose but doesn't extend down to the lower leech as much as it should according to the rigging video on naish tv.
I turned the sail over and the cams rotated really easy. With just a light push they popped over, so maybe there is a little too much downhaul? I am a total n00b when it comes to cammed sails.
Is it right mast? I think they are made for RDM's? I could be wrong. If you have right mast, have you sleeved the mast up the luff pocket on top of the battens/cams? Once you have sleeved it up on top, max downhaul. Then put Boom on and outhaul to max setting. Then let off downhaul and pop cams onto mast, then put on down haul again, if u've done all this, and doesn't work and have right mast, then its a completely different way to rig, and need opinion from a naish person?
From experience with later model Stealths I don't think the Naish 75%'s suit stealths ideally. It should work ok on the water like that, just look up when sailing and see that it is twisting ok and not flapping. 7m and above stealths rig on sdm mast.
Regarding the cams I don't quite go to the lengths of hardie- downhaul to about 3/4 easier to put boom on then, outhaul as far as you can then cams should pop straight on. If you downhaul full then outhaul full even when you let downhaul off there is too much tension in the sleeve to pop the cams on.
Whilst that mast has messed up the top of the sail a little I think it has put a bit more depth lower in the foil, the 07s were quite shallow and some felt downhaul had a narrow tuning range.
Thanks for the tips guys. I used the method in the instructional video on Naish TV which is pretty much as mkseven said but without the outhaul. With the mast sleeved and close to full downhaul the bottom 2 cams are still sitting a long way around the mast. I had to use a lot more effort to pop them on than it looked in the video and I can't see how more or less down/outhaul would change the shape of the sail enough, especially on the bottom cam, to make it much easier.
