That's a great setup Josh. Ours is a bear for similar reasons with even less leverage on the cabin-top traveler.
So far we just grinned and beared it. I'll put something similar on the to do list :-) -Francois Rivard 1990 34+ "Take Five" Lake Lanier, Georgia My boat came setup from the PO with a cabin top mainsheet control to a cabin top winch. It was painfully under powered even with the winch. My traveler is located in the cockpit on the aft edge of the forward bench. I had previously, on other boats, only ever used a 4:1 mainsheet which was trimmed at the traveler. A convenient setup for tacking with a limited crew or singlehanded. The PO had tried a 6:1 or 8:1 trimmed at the traveler but justifiably complained that there was too much extra line to be tripped on and tangled in the cockpit or thrown below in the cabin. I had seen the stacked fiddle block setup that makes 3:1/6:1 or 4:1/8:1. While innovative, I decided that the bulk of the line would still be under foot in the cockpit 95% of the time. I ended up designing a cascading system which gives me a 12:1 "tweaker" which is readily available in the cockpit and a 3:1 which runs to the cabin top winch for the deep down wind runs. TBH the tweaker and the traveler together usually give enough range for all but the deepest down wind runs. Even though the 3:1 is terminated at a winch it is extremely rare that we need to use it since the traveler and tweaker are available to make up for that which the 3:1 cannot. Based in your picture it appears that my setup may be useful on your boat. Basically you would eliminate either the port or starboard control which you currently have. Install a 4:1 or 6:1 fiddle block between boom and traveler, and have the free end now terminate with a cam cleat at the traveler side. With no other purchase changes it looks like a 4:1 could be arranged to produce 5:1 compounded with the existing 2:1 and you would have 10:1. With the compromise of more line on the deck you could push it to 12:1 or 14:1 with the application of a 6:1 instead. Here is a link to some pictures of my setup. If you need more description or better pictures just let me know. https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8pEh5lnvP1yY3Qtbi1VSllwM3M Josh Muckley S/V Sea Hawk 1989 C&C 37+ Solomons, MD
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