Roger Long wrote:
You wouldn't want to pull on an eye splice that way. It would be very
prone to coming apart.

Roger,
I remember a discussion like this in a book somewhere and the solution
they found was to use a single line with the jib cringle made fast in
the middle. After some looking on the Internet I found this article:
http://www.angelfire.com/de2/WIT/TJhalsheet.html

There is a couple of ideas there. I think that if you want no knot then
you have to come up with a way to splice an eye onto the clew in the
middle of the continuous sheet.

Gary