Thanks, Ed. Your description sounds pretty much like my sheave box although I don't think there would be room for a second spin halyard sheave in mine. The internal small sheaves sound the same though. That being the case, I guess my only semi-major mistake was to not run the upper jib halyard over the internal small sheave. I guess that it means another trip up the mast for an hour or so the next time it's blowing so I can have a look at the geometrics to make sure your solution will work on my box and then rerun the upper jib halyard (again). Gee, and I managed to take off the forestay and all twelve screws holding the sheave box and put it all back together without dropping any parts or tools on the crew's heads or overboard last time. I might as well press my luck. Oh well, at least all the winching is getting my crew in shape. Thanks again.
