We have had no troble accesing the jib sheet whilst reaching. Just grab it before you round the top mark and bring it back with you. You can do all this without leaving the wire. And whilst we do race courses where reaching is required, the Capricorn is an optimised windward leward boat.

As far as controls go on the Cap, the downhaul is accesable from just behind the front beam whislt rotation and jib is at the front beam. We plan to move our downhaul to the side stay simular to what I drew up for the jib. This is so I (skipper) can access it and play it in puffs.

Below is a pic of our Capricorn. The lines are a little long as we are asembling the new boat for the firat time and have not trimmer any at the time.

Red line - Down haul, swivel cleat can be seen at the edge where the tramp meets the front beam. The downhaul purchase is all under the tramp behind the front beam. Down haul soon to be detoured via a block tied to the side stay.

White and red line - jib sheet still to be trimmed

Blue line - Mast rotation, swivel cleats at base of mast.