Since we have some down time at a marina while waiting for our Reckmann roller furler to be serviced I decided to get some other projects done.

Even after moving most of the sail controls to the mid cockpit, we still needed to go foward to secure the new tack after reefing. Today I drilled and tapped fittings for each of the three reefs in order to move those lines aft as well.

I had seen a similar setup on a very nicely rigged Santa Cruz 52 named Aquila. They had each or the tack and leech lines run to their cockpit to clutches.

We would have benefited from this setup crossing the Tasman. While it was nice to be able to get the main reefed from the mid cockpit. It absolutely sucked to then go forward to secure the tack. Afterall the whole exercise of moving the control lines to the midcockpit is to avoid going forward.

The new setup add three reefing lines that coincide with the tack position of each reefing point. Each of the lines is led aft to a clutch. We will reef as before but then secure the tack reefing line to ensure that the tack is carrying the tack load instead of the lowest Harken mainsail car.