Rigging:

When I got my Freedom 25 it had cable lazy jacks, and cable back stays. But their was also a lot of missing hardware and damaged parts. From asking around and surfing the internet their seamed to be a number of different ideas and info on how peoples boats were set up. below are a few pics and info I learned from the past season on the water.

RIGGING Attachments to top of mast:

Here is a pic of the top of my winged mast, this stainless cap is a standard Freedom part. The stainless cap has a location for sheeve for main halyard with cotter pin, and a tab on frt for a shackle and block for Kite/Staysail halyard.

*note: this pic shows it fully assembled. The small blk nub is for wind instrument attachment.

In this picture you can see the frt tap with shackle and block for Kite/Staysail halyard.

*note: I used a wide enough shackle to locate the back stays on the shackle pin. With the rotating mast it's important to locate back stays on frt of mast so the tension will not keep the mast from rotating.

This pic shows the Main Halyard and sheeve, this pic shows how I attached the lazy jack cables to the sheeve cotter pin using washers and a longer pin.

BACK STAYS:

The standard back stay design for the Freedom 25 with rotating winged mast was a cable which attached to the top of mast and then turned to rope at the bottom which would be fed through a block attached to the stantion then around a winch. When I got my boat both rope section were cut and missing. This pic shows the new rope attached to the cable, redone to factory spec which is way over built.

*note: I plan to update this system in near future removing all the cables and running high grade low stretch line.