Roger Long wrote:

As someone points out below, my halyards are internal and the fitting
locations are not optimum for old fashioned tug and grunt.

dumb lookThat's what I get for posting from where I couldn't view
your pic. ;-) Thank you for your patience, Roger.

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.

I've found the same even with the little Furlex on my 7.5M where I
first encountered it, & am surprised some disagree. Yet they drop
freely & smartly (i.e., not a sailmaker issue with the luff treatment,
as one seemed to imply). It seems to be simply the matter of having
"more stuff in the luff" to tension.

Due to the loss mechanical advantage with the turning block, I
actually had to sweat on the tackle line.

It seems sweat is built into any method - I seem to produce more of it
trying to use small winches.

What was most on my mind during my mis-aimed post was your expressed
comment about being warned about or castigated by posters for having
anyone leave the cockpit. This concerned me because even though some
of us have everything lead thereto & easily managed therefrom under
normal conditions (I almost went broke on good blocks & clutches to do
it the first time & they were well worth it), it seems a lot more
unsafe to wait until an emergency, gear failure or malfunction happens
to get used to working up forward comfortably & safely. I wonder how
many mishaps either may occur or be exacerbated due to someone's terror
& unfamiliarity bred by cockpit-bound sailing, and haven't noticed it
mentioned.

Being somewhat of a lifelong chicken myself, even on a 1000' VLCC, I
try to take advantage of every opportunity to to leave the cockpit for
the sake of staying familiar, conditioned & confident. I figure that
anyone who goes to sea for fun has a few screws loose anyway, so if I
am going to intentionally risk death, I want to at least be able to
resist or delay it from anywhere aboard. :-)

Thx the read.