Thanks Ben
Didn't need jacks on my last boat which I put over 25000 blue water miles on. Had no trouble even at night and in storms. My present boat is a center cockpit 39' with the boom high and long and the main is just not as tractable as was the one on my last cruising boat (less slide friction).
I'm even considering adding a third set of reef points because I cannot depower the main going hard on the wind sufficiently in 40kts. This will make the boom even busier than it is now with two sets of jiffy reefing gear. Still, I will consider your suggestion yet don't quite have the visualization.
Any more comments that might help. I did install a boom gallows which makes handling the main bouncing around at sea much safer and easier. As it is without some sort of main catchment method I still consider handling the main with the boom so high off the deck and cockpit enclosure a danger in heavy winds and seas.
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