Since you don't envision using your runners very often, this is the system I have used for years on a J-130.
We took the runners and spiced in an eye about one foot shorter than the distance from where they attach to the mast to the base of the mast. Then attach a short line to the base of the mast up to the eye. This allowes the runners to be kept normally stowed right at the base of the mast.
To deploy the runners we then just attached the eye to a shackle on the moving part of the runners attached at the back of the boat. This can be any system you prefer, for the size of the boat.
This system allowes quick deployment as well as keeping everything out of the way except when you actually want to use them.
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