catalina27-talk: Sail slugs and boom and reefing,, Oh my!

[Rsrwinkle]

Happy New Year to all!     After my Christmas eve sail I decided that it was still to early to call it a day, so I ran the long put off lines for jiffy reefing on the boom. No problem with the aft line other than the first piece I used was about a foot short on one end. A problem arose when I ran the other one, at the mast.  The band on my mast is 42 1/2" above the deck. To high for racing standards. My boom is slightly higher than that to allow the main sail to fit inside the sail cover when flaked with the sail stop just above the mast opening. The opening is 48" above the deck. To properly reef the main I would need to have two sail slugs below the sail stop in order to have the reef tack in the right position.     I'll either have to put on mast gates or reposition the bottom two slugs, or maybe a much taller sail cover!     Any help would be greatly appreciated!   Thank you!        Ray Winkle 5275 Knot Home Gloucester Point, VA.