The reef lines - all three- are extremely heavy. They run through a patent variable-pin track to a bank of stoppers. Each of these, ultimately, must be judged as dangerous rubbish. The pins on the former jump their holes under load. And the latter isn't failsafe. Far better, then, to have fixed turning or hanging blocks (extra-heavy rivets) and old-style cleats at the inboard end of the boom.
Piseag has a roller genoa. I don't think I'd have one again. They can go wrong and therefore they do go wrong, albeit infrequently - but once might be enough, and that's a terrible prospect for the distant-water shorthander. (It happened to me with this same roller off the Lizard in a summer gale, just before dawn a few years back. Luckily, I got away with it - that time!)

Beef up the rigging?
A roller genoa means a fearful amount of weight aloft, for one thing. And it gives nothing like the performance of the boat's original number-one, which made light-airs beating something like the fun it's meant to be. As for ease of handling, forget the boy-racer non¬sense you learned round-the-cans last weekend, and sail your little ship under-canvassed or even bare-headed for just as long as a sail-change takes; there's always tomorrow.
As for the rest of the rig. Before I left, I oversized the standing rigging (up from five to eight millimeter). I never noticed the extra weight: but no - next time, I'll go back to what the designer specified. Mast steps - they came with the boat and I wouldn't sail without them - it's a great comfort to know that I can get to the masthead and stay there awhile in comfort. Moveable inner forestay? I put one on, mainly for the storm jib: an essential with a roller genoa. For this forestay, there's also a lightweight hanked sail (to compensate for the poor light-airs performance of the roller genoa). It's a lovely little sail but a waste of money and more trouble than it's worth to hoist. Similarly with the twin-poles and twin-heads ails arrangement for downwind work. Again, not worth the effort. Use the spinnaker - and when you can use it with confidence single-handed you'll appreciate just what a wonderful sail it is.
Ideally, one should carry one very light kite (but it doesn't have to be oversize) along with super-light sheets - two of them - for off-the-pole work in super-light airs. Get becalmed half a cable off Cabo Finisterre without an engine (as I did) and you'll know what I mean. Believe me! And what might we hang in this rigging? I carried a very large Q flag in the hope that it would encourage Customs to clear me quickly - but it's no guarantee. Nearly 20 years ago, I arrived in Barbados on Jim Wharram's original Teheni (with cat-designer  Richard Woods among the crew). After three days and still not cleared, we ran for it and were finally cleared - in San Lucia. And this time, well, I was in Spain for seven months before I had a visit!

I also carried a very large D flag: 'I am maneuvering with difficulty - keep well clear at slow speed.' Becalmed off a busy harbour mouth, such as La Coru at slow speed.' As for lights and day marks. I carried, primarily for cabin use, a Tilley lamp - a great light which also gives great heat, as everyone knows. Mine, however, went wrong and after two years and a thousand strips it still won't work. Its sloppy, I sub-literate, instruction leaflet don’t / help, of course. In an emergency, 1'd have slung it high on the back¬ stay...
As a second night-light standby, I also¬ carried a no pressure dipodic¬ lens Davey lamp in old-style copper: that's right, the sort of thing the

To be continued......................