Mako:

You would have to have a lot longer piece of wire on the halyard. The only thing I can think of as you would need something up top to keep the wire to the side of the mast to miss the battens on the jib and this would put a lot of prebend to one side on the mast. I don't think it would work very good. Sorry, Hobie made it that way for a reason, and I think that is why.

Doug