Main halyard length

My main  halyard is 3/8" dia and 74ft long. It leads back to the cockpit. Should be a low stretch line, but does not need to be a high tech  - high cost racing zero stretch line.

Hi Kristin!
It's called a sail slide stopper; apparently you can buy for cheap ($8 or so) and it screws into the sail slide track and prevents the sail from sliding out of its groove.

Halyard: if you have an old one, take it in to measure, and just buy the proper one: for halyards, as Seeadler says, is low stretch.  Mine is 3/8, no problem fitting in jam cleats...it will seem like line is too big sometimes, but if you pull on line as you close lever, it will be much easier than if you don't...1/4 is too small of line, in my humble opinion! ;-)

I replaced the ankle biting jam cleats with newer, rounder ones, which also handled the 1/2-inch line. I think 3/8 or 7/16 line should be fine for halyards (I think?).

Keep in mind that 1/2-inch line will swell, and be bigger than 1/2-inch.

Well I have to say Kristin that I think the Origo is a great stove,just make sure it is off when you are finished .Fumes are a sign that the canister needs to be refilled,and only last a moment.I consider them a handy reminder.Watch out for old salts,they may have hardened (brain)artheries,from to much salt and not enough sailing.Cheers,Bill(ge)

Just replaced my wire main halyard with 23m of 10mm prestreched braid on braid, which is a good length although I don't need it to go right back to the cockpit.

This was the last length on the spool but the guy wasn't  amused when I asked for a discount as it was a spool end :-)

Cheers
Andrew