As a traditional sailor with most of my time behind gaffs and
bowsprits, I am more than familiar with sweating. It is amazing what
you can move that way.

As someone points out below, my halyards are internal and the fitting
locations are not optimum for old fashioned tug and grunt. Sweating
or the winch worked OK on the working jib but the 150 roller furling
genoa with the foam and double cloth layer in the leading edge seems
to need a lot of tension to set right.

Due to the loss mechanical advantage with the turning block, I
actually had to sweat on the tackle line. It's short but it still
worked well. When I get the mast off the boat and relocate a lot of
the stuff, I'll raise the cleats which will help. I'd go with a
triple block if I did this again and certainly if the boat was any
larger.

I agree that on a 30 foot or under boat, one with hank jib, or jibs a
standard leading edge, you can get by with sweating alone if the
halyards are external or exit high enough on the mast.

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Roger Long

wrote in message
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I'm glad you are happy with your arrangement. I'd offer that on a
boat
this size, one can get as much or more force than needed without any
of
this by simply choking the line at the cleat, putting one's foot
hard &
high against the mast, & alternately drawing the halyard outward
like a
bowstring while snubbing it up between strokes.