Here's what I use on the front beam for a halyard cleat...

http://www.nacraclass.com/F17C/photos/Front%20beam.jpg

--Works everytime and it's simple.
Bob <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />


"The election is over, the talking is done, Your party lost, my party won. So let us be friends, let arguments pass, I’ll hug my elephant, you kiss you’re a $$.”
Liberalism = A brain eating amoeba & a failed political ideology of the 20th century!