I make a combination of quarter lifts and lazy jacks - called locally LazyIans but really LazyLifts - and for rigs with light (aluminum or hollow wood) booms with sails up to about 500 square feet I find that a simple thimbled eye is far more suitable than the over-engineered high windage clutter of blocks we see in some pre-made lazy jack systems that are rigged to disadvantage so they can't be turned into LazyLifts anyway.
In general it seems to me that any situation where you don't need to haul under load may well be great for a thimbled eye.
G'luck
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