I think larger boats usually use a towel-rack-shaped traveler on the
foredeck with a single line sheet run forward to the tack, then aft.
Harry
P14 #234, Manatee
Mountain View, CA
>Greetings:
>If you want the jib boom to be self tacking, rig it so that a single sheet
>runs from the aft end of the boom, down through a block forward of the mast
>on centerline, and thence to the cockpit as convenient. If you do it this
>way, tacking becomes a matter of pulling the tiller to leeward and making
>sure everyone ducks. If the jib was correctly trimmed on one tack, it
>should be pretty close on the opposite tack.
>Hope this helps,
>Mac Davis, Kelpie, WWP19#804, Aripeka, Fl