[Rhodes22-list] Boom Rigging

[Bill Effros]

I just got Stan's new battened main and the boom with the cleat on the 
bottom.  The sliding block on top of the boom has a tang on the front.  
The aft end of the boom has a fitting with 2 holes.  I can see roughly 
20 different ways to rig it.  Bruce has the boom with the cleat, but his 
sliding block doesn't have a tang.  It seems to me that one could rig 
the sail to the tang, and a line from the aft fitting around the sliding 
block, and back down the hole where it could be pulled to move the IMF 
sail out.  Has anyone rigged it this way?  Does it work?  Is it better 
than the more traditional double lines from the sail, both under the 
sliding block, one end to the aft boom fitting and the other end down 
through the mast?

Bill Effros