Originally Posted by TEH
One was simply where do you put the stick when taking down the spin? (I sail single handed).

Throw it overboard. Let it drag behind the boat. I throw it away when I raise the spi and if I don't need to go on the wire I leave it there for all the downwind leg, steering with the rudder bar.

I use my feet on the rudder bar to steer while I set and douse the spi.