Ramona said..Abhilash Tomy apparently used his storm sail on the backstay on occasions for extra power when reaching. I guess it's one way to keep yourself amused. Good to see a servo windvane self steering gear finish in immaculate condition!
Yeah cool idea with a block and tackle further down the back stay to drag the halyard up. Might add a fair bit of extra backstay tension so would want to run it past a naval architect first and perhaps beef up the backstay and backstay chainplate/s. Poor man's ketch :).
Would want to run it past the rules first so you didn't invest the best part of a year for nothing.
Can't recall where the tack was. Might make the cockpit awkward but probably high enough off the deck to avoid that. Like a large version of those at anchor riding sails one occasionally sees advertised
Full marks for ingenuity!
