Yeah, Sam, I forgot -- I guess you are saying that with center sheeting and a crew handling the mainsheet, the helmsman could still use the traveler sheet to stabilize himself from getting thrown forward. Rick always uses the mainsheet for that purpose, so I wasn't thinking about the traveler.

Regarding what Maugan said, the reason the imagery was interesting was that he was talking about putting the whole tiller crossbar in front of not just the mainsheet system but in front of the sheet. I don't think he meant to say it the way it sounded.

When you lengthened your tillers to put the crossbar in front of the mainsheet system, did it affect your steering leverage in any way?