I remember bringing the main in before a jibe and feeding it out as the sail flicks over. Whether I can do this and manage a kite is the question. I guess the spi can be set after the main is trimed.
I repeat myself. With sailing with a spinnaker it is paramount that you keep the spi happy. All other things are secondary. When sailing downwind with a spi you are sailing WITH a spinnaker that has a mainsail added, not the other way around.
I don't do anything with my mainsail when I'm sailing with a spi. I just make sure my gibes with the spi are smooth and at high speed and everything else will fall into place on its own. The mainsail will come accross automatically and the battens will pop once you heat it up a little.
So when rounding the A-mark just cleat your mainsail, set the traveller at the right position then hoist the spi and never touch the mainsail till the spi has been lowered at the C-mark and you are heading up to a reach and close hauled again.
Good luck,
Wouter
