"Wonder if anybody else has thought of it..." was a try at humor, after I was so slow to figure out what the bungy did--Never mind.
My bigger question is: how much of a handicap would it be to use only one deck piece, turned around a block centered near the bow, say at the staysail tack? Given a cruiser, where speed is less critical, would the added trouble to unclip the deck line from the boom line, bring it around under the lifelines and outside the stays, and re-attach it on the new lee side--outweigh the added complexity and cost of twice the number of side-deck lines and turning blocks?
For that matter, might you make the same case for only one boom piece?
I couldn't find it in "Apprentice", btw. I assume I can stitch the bungy in place by putting a couple stitches through each of the spectra strands?
JV
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