Wow, I haven;t been here in awhile!

You should see my new snuffer system!!!!!
more on this later.

Scott Tuma, taught me when tramp launching, dousing the spin, to first make sure the halyard wasn't fouled anywhere or knotted up, and throw it off the back of the boat while you're sailing with a stopper knot (fig 8') in the end. Why you ask? B/c it gives you some tension to 'pull' the spin down with, as opposed to it falling in the water, or having someone belay it to you to keep it out of the water., secondly, b/c it makes sure it is not fouled stretched out behind the boat as it comes down.
If you tramp your chute, and don't want to adopt this method, good luck anyway.

My new snuffer. I'll try and keep this short. After the problems of the low flung spin bag on my 6.0, it unraveling in 100+ mile off shore distance races and acting as a water brake (Great TX, 2004), I now have it in a 6inch diameter drain pipe, with a funnel like piece on the end.

However, thuis snuffer pipe runs on top and the side of my pole. And goes thru the pelicam striker on the port side, next to the forestay. My Inter chute I use(270 sq ft-faster), has only 1 grommet and an anchor point, and takes 19 feet of pipe, bag whatever to snuff completely.

On the top on the opening, is a roller or sorts so when it binds on top, it just rolls right on in to the pipe.

nothing runs under the tramp, gets in the water, fouls, etc.

Incidentally, my spin blocks are on the shrouds, and even that's a little far back for my I 20 spin.

You should see it, I'll try and take pictures of my design soon and polst them.

For years I've tried all the various ways, and down here in TX, we say there's more than one way, to skin a cat!

Todd Bouton
'If you have a piece of drain pipe on your sailboat as a snuffer, you MIGHT a redneck!' -Jeff F.