Dennis and John,
Thanks for your comments. I really just wanted a genoa for sailing on days of light steady breezes, so I could make a little better progress, and knew a genoa should work on the Klepper just like all sailboats. It works great now that the rigging is better tuned. You would probably not want to run the genoa on days of winds exceeding 12 mph or so, or gusty days, even with the BOSS outrigger, or bigger ones.
I found that with the genoa, because I can get good boat speed even in light winds, coming about is much easier. You want to change tack quickly, and backwind the genoa to assist in coming about. Didn't need any paddle assist on any of the 20 or 30 tacks I did that day.
There are photos of the rig with both sails up, including the genoa, on dry land (my yard) in the Facebook album I posted the link to a few months back. See:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 916c13c1c4. And:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 5aa9e9a5c0. If you look at these photographs closely, you can answer just about all the questions that you posed, and perhaps learn a few other things about what I've been doing. Have fun!
Yes, the cam cleats mounted on the Spring Creek amas and the one in the center of the SC UR all work perfectly. They are made by Harken, and I've been using them for about 8 years now. Harken is a top of the line supplier of small to gigundous sailboats (mega-yachts is probably the correct term), including many America's Cup and Volvo Ocean Racing sailboats. Their headquarters are in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, about 10 miles from my house. Good equipment, sold at all good sailboat shops.
The 12" longer lower mast is "longer" on the bottom....that's why the boom is 12" higher than the standard Klepper boom. The "funny hook" as John rightly calls it, is 12" higher from the bottom of the mast. You can easily make a 12" longer mast by purchasing aluminum round tube from your local metals distibutor (like Speedy Metals, in New Berlin, Wisconsin, about 10 miles from my house again). The new lower mast, with another set of 3 Harken blocks only cost me about $150, and I still have the old original Klepper mast fully set up in case I ever want to use it again (which is unlikely since I have better head clearance and visibility now; can run either the genoa or the working jib with this mast; and can run just a jib on this forward position mast with a BSD 36 sport batwing on a rear mast at the same time).
The "guide for the halyards" is just a simple double Harken block with a full swivel (in stainless and impact resistant plastic), serving exactly the same function as the brass one that is on my original Klepper mast. I lead the halyards to the moveable control board with its jam cleats. If I have a crew in the forward seat, the small control board for the two halyards, and the jib retract system is mounted just forward of the BOSS outrigger ahead of the front seat. If I sail alone, like in the photo above, I move the control board to mount it on the rear control board, so I can reach it easily for sailing.
I do not use a wishbone behind the rear cockpit seat for the mainsail control like on the BSD sail rig. I just run the main sheet forward from the aft end of the boom, and down through a single block to the cam cleat on the Spring Creek Universal Receiver control board. With such a small load on this small mainsail, you do not need a double block at all.
I hope that answer all your questions.
Happy sailing everyone.
Chris