Thanks fellows -

I suspected it was something like that. But what is the purpose of the traveller? Don't we want to be able to fix the mainsheet so that we don't need to continually hold it in place?

As for pre-marital issues, my fiancee has a bit of "utah disillusionment" and despises anything that might actually be fun in this state. Fortunately, she wants to move to Miami, so my catamaran hobby won't suffer too much