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I was pretty amazed to see the talk of cleating the spinnaker in that other thread. I find the spinnaker needs a lot more adjusting than the main, and in a howler you have to be able to let the spinnaker go in some of the bigger gusts, otherwise the only way is down Once again I'm talking about Mosquitos, and maybe this is different for cats with more main and less spinnaker.

Tim


Tim,

My comments re cleating the kite are to only allow one to play with something else in the short term. I'd never planned to cleat the kite for long periods of time....the big dump of kite when both bows disappear in the big stuff is still the only way out I think. I have had a couple of moments already where I have cleated the kite by accident when doing something just as a big gust (or shift) arrives and it has got 'interesting'. I am still to find the correct angle for the cleat on my 17, but it does make things easier when changing the traveller position(espically from the wire when trying to make a mark), moving the plates or such like...

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