sorting out the strings on a new acquisition. What fittings there were were all set up to the side decks, which doesn't appeal to me: I like a central console, so I've just made up something crude and screwed it in where the centre jammer attached, my preference being for off the boom sheeting and a bridle.

OK, all well and good so far. Conventionally one would run the lines down the back of the bulkhead to the floor, and have turning blocks there to run the lines back to the console. Thing is though there has never been any fitting down there, and there isn't access to the back of the bulkhead to bolt through, so it would mean tunnelling through the little rib there as an anchor point, which I'm not altogther comfortable with. So I thought, well, supposing I ran the control lines diagonally from the base of the mast back to the console, the way I've run the end of the halyard and my temp kicker in the shot. What do people think? Will that be a nuisance or look very odd running the lines through mid air like that?