Having been out of the loop, so to speak, for a while would you mind telling me if your boat came with the spin cleat mounted on the mast. If so, what was the reasoning and why are you moving away from that?
The boat - a 2007ish VWM Blade - came with the cleat on the mast and neither I or my co-owner like it there. The cleat on the mast is frequently rotated away from you (i.e., on the wrong side of the mast) when you need to get to it. I think if we had been given the choice at the time we bought the boat, we would have asked for the cleat on the beam, but we didn't think about it. Additionally, this boat is almost always sailed single-handed and I always thought the cleat-on-the-mast thing was more for double-handed sailing.
