are you sailing trough tacks with a tight leech? I think not..
You'll be suprised of how much tension is still on the leech even when the mainsheet has been sheeted out. Remember you are sheeting out to get twist in the sail to help accelleration after tacking, not to lower the leech tension to full slack.
I had an "eye opening experience" when a former olympic Tornado sailor was testing how flat he could make our new mainsail. Mainsails are tough sails taking very high loads!
If have been more then once surprised about how some "money's" have been able to break stuff through shear stupidity. One reason why I always tell all newbies to take care and think through what they are doing.
My personally ? Yeah there have been occasions were I could play the bohemian raphody on my mainsail control lines.
Wouter
