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Hi all. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I recently bought a '99 Hunter 420 with a Lazy Jack system. Second only to a furling main, I thought lazy jacks were supposed to make sail management a breeze! Instead, it's a real ordeal. It's hard to reach the sail on the boom because the boom is about 8 feet off the aft deck, and the bimini prevents reaching the boom amidship. So flaking the sail is incredibly difficult, and zipping the sail cover is equally so.

What I do now is drop the sail and wait till I'm in port. I use a stepstool and slowly work my way from back to front. Twice. The first round is to flake the sail and the second is to zip the cover. It takes forever and wears me out.

I'm not new to sailing, or flaking a sail. But managing the sail with the center cockpit configuration, high boom and that Hunter arch really takes the wind out of my sails!

So...can anyone provide some much needed advice?

thanks!