thanks
that seemed a solution to us also. we are also looking at the mast tuning blogs in the forum as we suspect we can use some adjustment there; as the boat has some age on it, we're a little reluctant to tighten the shrouds too much though. we have rod rigging and haven't seem a lot of info on boats with this type
any ideas appreciated.
we'll try both the traveler ideas and the point of sail this Wed and see what that does