We have the auto-pilot and I use it. I bought all the stuff to make
Lazy jacks but have not installed them yet.

I did not put up the main going downwind because I'd have to turn into
the wind to do it and the channel starts going directly downwind. My
wife was steering in the channel and she HATES the main blocking her
vision while it is going up, especially in the channel. By the time we
cleared the channel, I was rigging a fishing line for my 9 yr old and
that took awhile.

All my controls lead to my cockpit with stoppers. My first reef is a
two line system and my second reef is a single line system.