It's a simple and
servicable set-up. You should consider the same.

Yea, I'd like to trade my simple 5/16" Technora core double braid for your old
fashon, heavy, meat hook, complicated, prone to failure wire to rope halyards.
Especially since they use that stretchy 3-strand Nylon tail.
S/V Express 30 "Ringmaster"
Trains are a winter sport