[MtHopeBay]

What is meant by retractable? Are lazyjacks usually a fixed rigging? My Balboa 24 came with lazyjacks and I was planning to remove them this winter so I'm following this thread with interest.

Mine look like Harken 252 for small boat but instead of a continuous control line that is fixed on one side of the boom, goes under the boom and is cleated on the other side, it has a seperate control line on each side of the boom, one end of which snaps to a pad eye on the aft half of the boom and the other end cleats on the forward end of the boom. They get removed and then tie off to cleats on the mast when not used.

They were of little use and usually got in the way when hoisting sail. I hadn't considered attaching them to blocks on the spreaders but now I will.
Mike