You are correct, the slot and sail bolt-rope will jamb if you are not there to tend to it. 
Ric
sv Dadventure
Hampton Bays NY

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> On Feb 5, 2017, at 9:30 AM, Jefferson Lewis <jefferson at iteract.ca> wrote:
> 
> I am looking at ways of raising and lowering the main from the cockpit and
> found this post (below) in the archive. Has anyone tried this? The Harken
> system refers to sail slugs, and on my 76 R22, the sail goes up a channel in
> the mast not with sail slugs and a track. So I'm not sure if this setup will
> work without jamming as the sail goes out? Any advice?
> 
> Post 
>    
> Setting up for single handing
> 
> Steve, or anyone else w/ a std main, I am about to run the halyard back to
> the cockpit and would like to get any dos/donts from those who have done.
> 
> I just finished this project. The following is the way I did it, after all
> the false starts.
> 
> 1. Weld a stainless pad eye to the starboard side of the tabernacle. [If you
> use bolts, the heads will rub against the mast and pull the tabernacle out
> of the boat as the mast takes the tabernacle with it.]
> 2. Attach a three [3] sheave bullet block to your pad eye.
> 3. Install a triple rope clutch to the starboard side of the boat deck
> almost as far aft as the bulkhead. Through-bolt it.
> 4. Using a piece of 1/2 inch Starboard for a pad, through-bolt a triple deck
> organizer to the deck.
> 5. Run your main halyard through the most forward sheave if the triple
> bullet block, the most forward sheave of the deck organizer, and finally
> through the most starboard opening in the rope clutch.
> 6. Install your downhaul and run it through the middle sheaves and opening.
> 7. Install your Harken Single Line Reefing System [track on the port side of
> the boom] and use none of the hardware provided for the starboard
> installation. Instead run the reefing line from the forward reefing grommet
> to the aft sheave in the bullet block, the aft sheave in the deck organizer,
> and the port-most opening of the rope clutch.
> 8. Works like a charm!
> Hope this helps,
> 
> CPT Richard F. Sheehan
> 15 Apr 2002
> 
> 
> 
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> Jefferson Lewis
> SV Patience 1976
> Lake Memphremagog, Quebec
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