I have been thinking about ordering long sheets for my “reacher" (A sail) to be able to do outside jibes. All the videos I have seen for this technique have the spinnaker tack on a sprit or attached forward of the headstay. That seems pretty simple, but I don’t have an attachment point there. My tack can either be attached directly to a padeye on the deck behind the forestay or to a strap around the furled headsail and then to the padeye. I think that means that every time I jibe, the tack line will wrap around the headstay. Is that a problem? I could douse with the sock and redeploy after jibe (sounds slow for racing) or add an attachment point to the pulpit for a block so I am forward of the headstay. Am I missing something? How do others without sprits do this? Dave
S/V Aries 1990 C&C 34+ New London, CT
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