[michael]

Hi.. I am a new user so if my question is inappropriate please let me know. I am trying to figure out how to install a topping lift on my 30 foot catamaran. The boat is fractionally rigged and also the mast is only fractionally supported. By this I mean that the back stays ( cap Shrouds ) support the mast about 10 inches above where the screecher exits the mast. Both the screecher and the jib are furling sails. So, there are no halyards that I can easily use for a topping lift for a whisker poll. I had planned on simply installing a pad eye and a block with a swivel above the screacher but it seems like that might not do the trick. I think if I do this the halyards and it's opposite end will have to be taken out around the screacher in order to rig the whisker poll. So every time I would go to set the whisker poll I would have to taken out around the screacher is this correct? Is there any way that I can rig this externally so that it will run fair on either side? I hope I have explained my problem so that it is easily understood. I also hope there's an easy answer :^) Thanks for any help Michael