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.
I did something similar a while back on my Hurricane 59 - Twin wiring with the kite up in fairly big winds on the lake (we get short square waves which are a nightmare) and put the bows under, and the pole and the front of the kite, and the front beam and the pole survived (much to my surprise), it did make a hell of a twang when it came out mind - we took the kite down PDQ.
