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You should have hoisted mast with forestay (not with jib halyard) attached to head of gin poles.  Next ease the main halyard winch to make slack in your side preventor lines.  Once you’ve done that, (IMPORTANT) run the jib halyard outside the gin poles/bow triangle and attach it to your stem (bow line) fitting; not to the jib tack anchor, and winch halyard taught to achieve your desired shrouds’ tension. (I carefully use a socket wrench rachet handle for this, as the tension needed for my snug rig might be more than an aluminum can take).  Then ease forestay tension from trailer winch enough that you can detach the forestay from head of gin poles and attach it to its anchor fitting  (tail?) in bow.  (You won’t be short).   Then ease jib halyard tension and detach halyard from the stem fitting and you’re done.

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