You finally made me think the matter over, MN3 and the solution is quite simple.

I'm always sailing with a shorter wire because of incoming waves! So ther's no difference for me, block-anglewise, on sitting or hanging out.

This steeper position hanging out is absolutely necessary, because otherwise I'm in real danger getting hit and bumped off the hull and ending free flying towards the stern of the lee hull.

So, a higher flying position for me on the wire gives me only one fixed blockposition for both on the tramp and outside on the wire; cleating and uncleating have exactly the same ease; it forces me to backdown the hullflying a bit and finally it saves my back!

One downside: it doesn't look so cool.

ronald