...and don't forget to wax your luff rope!

Rub paraffin wax on the luff tape that surrounds the rope inside the tape. This will make the sail go up the track alot easier. You can use a white candle, if you don't have pure paraffin.-But be sure the candle is 100% paraffin. I once waxed up my luff with a small stubby candle, but little did I know that it was one of my mother's old "Holy Candles" made of 50% beeswax. (Called a cathedral candle).
Holy crap! was THAT a MISTAKE!!! It felt like I was pulling a semi-truck up a hill, when raising the mainsail. This gummy wax took a whole saeson to wear off.