My old 5o5 had the haylard attached to the
center of the chute. I liked it.

I like continuous lines in general. My jib
sheets are rigged that way. Eventually, I'll
put a fine jib adjustment on HOOT and the
tails will be exposed. Right now they
terminate under the deck. So the jib trimmer
can grab the upwind side of the jib sheet,
take up the slack and trim the jib, without
going to leeward if he drops the sheet.

My twings work the same way, each side with
it's own cleat on the console and sharing a
single long line. Nothing on the boat requires
a crew to go to leeward, at most you have to lean
in slightly to reach the console.

I also use a line to connect both whale gusher
pump handles, and they are fed though a bullseye
so either or both can be pumped by pulling on one
line.

I color coded my running rigging, red, white, and
blue, and went fore to aft that way. Jib lines
red, in the middle, the vang, is white, and the
main sheet blue. I picked green for the spinnaker.
One nice thing about re-rigging an old boat, you
can set things up any way you want both color
coding, or with continous lines.

Bart