I'm still using the original system. One of the things I find distracting is to pull from stern to bow when dousing. I want to put a turning block on the port side of the forward cross bar, then I can douse by pulling bow to stern.
my boat was originally set up like that. what I did was to string a block where the snuffer line would turn around after coming out of the spin sock. Then there is another turning block at the front right beam where there is an open triangle. Pulls down very easily. FWIW, I use a single tack/halyard system
