I had quite a complicated system of under slung snuffer but had the rigging with so little friction that letting the uphaul go, if you had to at all make any adjustmant to either heading or release some thing tha had a minor snag, the sail would be down around the water before you knew it.

Tried the foot on the down haul, couldn't get consistancy and I would either end up with too much or too little. Tried the feed and retrieve but this really slows things down and you end up just doubling the retrieve time. Also by a not even feed I found my Spinlock jammer was locking on at times.

The only way I can think about getting some sort of constant friction is a series of blocks or rings or putting a small ratchet into the system somewhere.

I am glad others have experianced similar problems as I was starting to think it was just me.