You see, the whole deal on moving the main sheet block/padeye had to do with keeping the runs clean and avoiding chafe.

This picture shows the after lower shroud in the foreground, which is lined up with the hinge the vang bracket.

By moving the block for the main sheet forward, I lined up the sheet's drop with the vang and the shroud, so if the boom is hard to starboard -- up against the shroud -- the main sheet will not chafe against the vang hardware or the Reef One tack line..

The other line you see there is the tack line for the first reef, which is fundamentally the cause of my trouble with this job...
but it moves with the boom so it will be out of the way and won't chafe if I'm under one reef while the boom is
hard to starboard.

 

I'm sure no one wants to see yet another web page describing how I measured, drilled holes, built epoxy plugs, redrilled, and so on. It really does take two weekends to do this job right, though.

This padeye has a working load of about 5500 pounds, so it should be just fine. I lined up the longitudinal axis of the eye with the line of high load.

 

 

There's a good reason why I didn't do this in the first place. The area under this padeye isn't covered by the "panels" in my headliner structure. So in order to put this in, I had to massacre a small section of the headliner.

Well... screw it.

I used the backing plate that Schaeffer makes for this padeye, and made two of the bolts extra long, and I'll make a little teak cover for the hole and put some trick little red LED light fixture in or something.

(Eventually I covered it with Teak Trim around the Mast.)