Audasea has the open metal toe rails found on the older M17's and she came with a pair of snatch blocks to use as jib fair leads: http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/producte/10001/-1/ 10001/245850/0/0/snatchblock/All_2/mode+matchallpartial/0/0 You can easily move them up and down the rail as needed for each sail. Looks aside, my preference is the metal toe rails because of all those handy attachment points. I use them all the time. I had a turnbuckle work loose once on the road. Others galled and froze. Bottom line is I eventually replaced all 6 of them and glad I did. I would check all the rigging and all connection points on each end, replacing anything that looks suspicious. Especially so on the fore and back stays. Loosing a mast will ruin you day.