Rigging Spin Pole?

[Dockhead]

I am now the proud owner of a carbon fiber spinnaker pole, bought third hand here in Portsmouth. Now this I hope will really improve sailing downwind.

The pole is 7 meters (about 23 feet) long and about 150mm (about 6") in diameter.

Now I have to figure out how to rig it.

I have a "T" track on the front of my mast, and I have a ring car which fits my track (hooray!) and which came with the pole. I have small sheaves at the top of the track for the pole control line.

How how to make all this work? I've seen boats with a small winch and an endless line for raising and lowering the heel of the pole along the track. Or what is the best way to do it? I guess I could just put on a cleat and use light dyneema lines, one to haul the car up, and the other to hold it down, so that it's fixed in position -- what's the best way to do it?

I have a halyard I can use for a pole topping lift (second dyneema spin halyard, although it's overkill to have it go all the way to the masthead). And then I guess I need guys fore and aft through turning blocks or maybe even through cleats like I rig my preventer. I hope I have enough winches to control this maze of lines. I bet I'll have to tack to port tack to furl the yankee if the pole is set -- to free up a winch. I guess the forward guy can be run to the opposite side, so that the two guys are on either secondary.

Then there's the question of storing this huge telephone pole-like object. I'm afraid I can't store it on the mast, because it will interfere with the staysail sheet mechanism. I guess I will have to hang it from stanchions. This will not work all that well because my boat is boat-shaped -- the sheer is curved, to the stanchions don't make a straight line. I guess I'll have to play around with it.

I'll be grateful for your tips.