It depends. Small boats like the Wianno Sr have no bridle, attaching lift and downhaul at mid pole. The larger the boat, the more you want to get the lift and downhaul stresses away from the middle. For that reason, all bridles I've rigged went to the ends. If you by chance are rigging a boat that's jibed by the dipped pole method, only disconnecting from the guy and not both mast and guy, then of course you'd run the lift and downhaul without bridle either to the center of the pole if the boat's small or the end.
|