A friend of mine had his starboard deck organizer pull out as you describe. It was a high wind day and he had both the downhaul and vang on hard. He was able to repair his hull and has not had a repeat occurance. To avoid this issue I moved my vang to the port organizer. I have not had any issues with the vang routed to this way. It does reduce the load on the starboard organizer but not by half. The downhaul has 4 lines running from the organizer to the upper block so if a sailor can pull with 100 pounds force there will be 400 pounds force trying to pull out the organizer from the downhaul. That same 100 pounds force applied to the vang only causes 100 pounds force trying to pull out the organizer as there is only 1 line running up to the block on the mast. All the vang mechanical advantage happens after the organizer. Still, this is significant so there is benefit in making the change. I suspect this change is not rules legal, anything not expressly allowed is automatically denied. There is no performance benefit, just a durability benefit.
To AVOID the starboard deck organizer pulling out of the deck, it makes sense to me to move the vang (kicker) block to the port organizer. This would place each high load (vang and cunningham) on a separate organizer, halving the load on the starboard organizer. Questions: 1. Rules: Is this legal? 2. Construction: Are the screws as well reinforced on the port organizer as on the starboard organizer? 3. Need: Is this (organizer pulling out) a common problem or a rare and old-construction flaw? 4. Experience: Has anyone done this, and found it useful or problematic?
