Fellows,

I just purchased a used old-style BSD outrigger and have installed the brackets, struts etc.

My question is how to tension the struts that hold the inflatable ama.

The inner struts have a line that pulls the open end of the struts inboard, tensioning them. And a jam cleat holds this line.

The outer struts have a small line ending in a loop on top that if pulled, pulls the bottom of those struts outboard, tensioning them. There is no fitting to hold the loop at this end.

If I tension one set of struts and then pull on the other line, that pulls the other struts back in the wrong direction.

So is there a logical order to which line to pull first?

Am I supposed to secure the outer strut line with loop, and if so, where?

Do I first tension and secure the inboard line in the jam cleat, and then pull on the outboard loop to tension the outboard struts?

What should the struts look like looking down on them from above? Both set vertical, or the inboard ones angled slightly inboard and the outboard ones angled slightly outboard?

Thanks,
Marty Cooperman