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Hi Tom,
My suggestion is to forget attaching a preventer to boom end as you'll risk bending your boom midpoint. End point mounting o fpreventers is old school thought - absolutely right when sheet point is equally end boom - not right when sheet point is inboard.
Think about it.
Fit end point preventer, and tension mid point sheet - loads on boom end are pulling it forward and mid point is pulled back. Slop that around for a few days and the boom with crease or in strong stuff, break. Usually at the sheet point.
Better idea is to fix preventer to point at / around sheet point. And if you invest in a velco covered strop you can wind round the boom to fix the preventer to, then you'll not need to worry about the preventer breaking as the velcro strop will open first.
JOHN
PS With boom length on Bavaria 36 the chance of you dipping the boom is absolutely minimal, but dependent on downwind sailing angles - ones always got the risk of an involuntary gybe - so a preventer still makes sense.
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