Puzzler late

[Brion Toss]

Hello all,
Well I've done it again and let rigging work get in the way of getting the Puzzler attended to. Very sorry for the delay. Our Web people should have the official version of the new Puzzler up soon, along with the winner of last month's. Meanwhile I'll give you a head start on the new one:

July Puzzler

We're all going to Hawaii next week, to put the rig into a lovely schooner. This boat was, before rerigging, horribly top-heavy, to the point that it couldn't be sailed, with all working sail up, in anything more than a zephyr. We therefore set about taking as much weight out of the rig as we could, without, of course, compromising safety factors. We also worked at reducing windage. Some of the savings were dramatic, some incremental; in the end we calculate that we took over 400lbs. of weight off. This month's Puzzler is, how did we do it? Your job is to list places where you would try to save weight and reduce windage.
Details: The rig is gaff on the foremast, Bermudian on the main. Solid wooden sticks, wooden crosstrees and spreaders, massive bronze tangs for some of the stays, massive mast bands for others. It had Dacron double-braid running rigging, spliced 7x7 standing rigging, Dacron sails. We did nothing to the hull (i.e. added no ballast, changed no structures, moved no weight around), and nothing to the masts themselves, aside from some repairs. Everything else was up for grabs.
So, list any ideas you have, within those parameters, for reducing weight and windage. We'll post the best/most interesting suggestions, and we'll pick a random winner from the usable entries. Send your answers to puzzler@briontoss.com.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss