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I found moving the cleat and raising it about an inch so that it lined up with the winch while I am seated in the normal steering position usually gives me suffecient leverage to secure the jib or genoa sheet. You only have to drill one hole and fill the old one on each side to move the cleat so that you do not have to cross sheet or reach in front of the pedestal. If I have another person on board I may ask them to winch the sheet in if needed. I also removed the original seat and built a padded seat that is "rounded" giving me a level seat when healed.

I run my jib sheets from the jib cars, between the rope clutch and stanchion (near the winch), along the cockpit coaming top, through a fairlead and cam cleat, both on a swivel. On my 26C (atop the coaming, athwart the tiller) and both 26X's (just aft of the Genoa track) I used the Harken # 240, I believe. On my 26M I have a fairlead and cam cleat, both on a swivel, on a car that goes on the Genoa track.

And I'm the one who's making things too complicated.

Fortunately, as soon as I saw the part where you were willing to head up and take load off the sheets in order to avoid the "complication" of usiong the winch handle, I was able to easily decide I didn't really care to decipher the rest.

As a matter of fact I am an engineer.

Are we done trading insults, or do you want to keep it up? I've got tons more.

1) Three engineering students were gathered together discussing the possible designers of the human body. One said, "It was a mechanical engineer." Just look at all the joints." Another said, "No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous system has many thousands of electrical connections." The last one said, "Actually it was a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?"

2) "Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Engineers
believe that "if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet"

3) An architect, an artist and an engineer were discussing whether it was better to spend time with the wife or a mistress. The architect said he enjoyed time with his wife, building a solid foundation for an enduring relationship. The artist said he enjoyed time with his mistress, because the passion and mystery he found there. The engineer said, "I like both." "Both?" "Yeah. If you have a wife and a mistress, they will each assume you are spending time with the other woman, and you can go to the lab and get some work done."

4) An engineer was crossing a road one-day when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket.

The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one week." The engineer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket.

The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you and do ANYTHING you want" Again the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket.

Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess, and that I'll stay with you for a week and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?"

The engineer said, "Look, I'm an engineer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now that's cool."

One engineer met another in the park, and complimented the second on his new bicycle. The second said, "Yeah, it was the weirdest thing... a beautiful girl rode up to me on it, jumped off and took off her clothes, and said, "Take anything you want," so I took the bike." The first engineer said, "Good choice, the clothes probably wouldn't have fit you."

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Moe