We had a Freeport Islander 36. When it was sold we jumped up to a Gulfstar Sailmaster 50. That's going from 16,000 to 42,000 gross and 10 feet more waterline. We spent some time and ran all control lines to the cockpit all in one place on the starboard side of the companionway through clutches and on to an electric winch leaving the original manual winch in place so we'd have 2. I also installed a 2 speed switch at the helm so that after a line was pre loaded on the winch we could work it from the wheel.

5 lines,,,,, Main halyard, main sheet, headsail furler, first reef & an all purpose internal halyard we could do everything from raising me up the mast to putting the dingy on deck. The electric was great and if it went out there was always manual. The port side had 4 lines running through clutches to a standard self tailing Barient winch. Everything ran to the cockpit in one place,,, ok 2 (port and starboard companionway). We never had to go forward and always felt secure.

I was surprised it worked as well as it did since I designed and installed everything myself with only the Admirals help. Especially liked the winch switch at the helm.

Stepping up as far as we did in boat size made line handling extremely difficult, not to mention that all lines were in different places and all manual. Moving the larger lines to one place on the starboard forward cockpit and an electric winch took 1/2 the work out of sailing the boat. It was like the 36' boat again in line handling. Your new performance boat could be a handful. Spending the time and money to make line handling easier is well worth it. We changed ours after spending time on large cruising boats with only 2 people aboard. Most did something like we were planning. The Admiral quite often made major sail changes at night when I was asleep. Never wanted her to do it but she always did so I could sleep.

It was a big project but a wonderful/useful addition that was worth every penny.

As RB said, doing things when you first feel the inclination (like reef) is a great one. I wish I had a system to do that before I'd think of it.