Scooby Simon,
Thanks for your very helpful response. A few questions for you:
1. Do you sometimes solo sail the spin from the trap? If so, it seems like the rear footstrap alone would not be enough to stabilize you while pulling in and out on the spin sheet and turning the boat to keep it from flipping. Enlighten me.
a, Yes depending on wind; size of course and how busy the course is (and how knackered I am) I wire downwind with the kite up.
b, I have 2 loops at the back of the boat:
![[Linked Image]](http://www.tyresmoke.net/albums/albuq17/toeloop3.sized.jpg)
but only usually use the front ones as my foot gets in the way of the rudder arm when my foot is in the back one. I have a very grippy/rough side to the boat so (usually) my feet don't slide around
2. When you mention adding cleats, do you mean that you have replaced your nearest spin pulley with one that can cleat? Or did you place the cleats elsewhere, like on your trap harness or the side of boat?
I've rigged some on the front beam with a bit of rope from the becket on the top that I cleats/ties to the shrouds to keep them in a constant position s othat you can uncleat - Up set them up with upside down cleats. you can just see them on this picture :
![[Linked Image]](http://www.catsailor.com/bb_files/56758-spi%20cleat%20setup%203.jpg)
follow this
link for an even larger version.
3. Do you find that having spin cleats works well or do you have problems uncleating quickly or accidentally cleating?
Becasue od the position of the cleats and the angle I've set them up at it is difficult to cleat them by accident - they are set so you can just get them into the cleats from the wire when forward by the shrouds (i.e. the sheets are almost touching the shrouds when you pull them). The will almost always pull out if cleated; they are really used just to free up hands when doing other stuff around the boat; the cleats are also usefull for the first hoist as I can have the sheet cleated before the kite goes up and so be "a couple of arm fulls" ahead when sheeting in.
