The system we have set up on the Tiger is to have a small double block tied to each of the shrouds. Both the downhaul and jib sheet go through this then down under the tramp. There is then a cat's cradle of elastic and pulleys under the tramp to take up the spare line. I crew on the Tiger, and normally do the mainsheet, but using this system I have the jib sheet and downhaul right by my feet and very easy to get to from either the trapeze or sat in the rear half of the boat.

I've set up a similar thing for the downhaul on my Stealth, and it works very nicely. I definitely prefer it here, rather than fed through the front beam.

It does take a bit of care to avoid ending up with all of the line on one side of the boat, but the way we have the pulleys set up maximises the amount of line under the boat, and if you sort it out before a race then you won't run out of line in a 3 or 4 lap race.

Paul