No the blocks are racheting ok. Of course this was the first thing we've checked. I think we all had the case once that we used them in opposite direction, and that happens only once ;-)

As the spinnaker is quite old it's rather bunchy (is this the right word?) But we have the the pole quite low, see picture of yesterday.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/lhQXAFI.jpg?1[/img]

Yes sheet goes from hand cross the trampoline to the beam block to the racheting block on the stay.

We use a sheet out of 1 length, so shifting is rather difficult.