can anyone remember the thread on above , someone talked of a line attached to somewhere on the kite , when dousing that pulled the sheets into the chute to stop the chance of bow wrapping , can't remember how i found it before , and fancy giving the system a try , any one used it ??, does it work ??, what do you do ??

Will this make it harder to pull down the spi, or even easier?

Seemed to me that the biggest problem I had in snuffing was fighting the halyard itself. If the head of the sail fell off to leeward (and stayed out of the water), the large hoop easily accommodated whatever amount of spin I could pull in there.

If the halyard wasn't easing fast enough, I was pulling against that (tight luff), as well as whatever fabric at the snuff points into the hoop, at a vertical angle (and the clump of sail had to go around the hoop edge)

I'm just catching up on this thread. Sorry if I missed this:

Is this not useful on endpole snuffers?

I was just giving him $hit because he's not owned a boat since we were all using end-pole snuffers. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />