Hey Mike,
CANT agree more with you ! I`ll be going sailing this weekend, just to stop me from posting so much.

On the tramp bag vs snuffer issue, I`ve had both. On a boat with spreaders, diamond wires, 2 trapeze wires and other fiddly bits I damaged my spinnaker much more by bag launching than by snuffing.
Another advantage of snuffing is you can hoist on port tack, take down on stbd, then hoist again on port. Try that with a bag. The mast kinda gets in the way. I used to be the idiot on keelboats that never saw the upwind leg of a race, too busy repacking spinnakers down below, unclipping tack,clew & head from lines, running them round the bow and reconnecting just in time for the next downwind leg.