Was it an end pole or midpole snuffer?
In the Tybee 500 last year we broke a spin pole in half while stuffing the bows hard, and it was a straight aluminum pole without a snuffer end! So get a midpole, and keep those bows up...
yeah well...you should also add that we DID have the spinnaker up at the time but we stuffed so hard into the back of a wave that we put the bottom of the spinnaker under water which lead to the broken pole and shredded spinnaker.
