What a day. Went sailing yesterday to sort a few things and get some hours on the water with the spi.
Got to the rigging area 11.30 (a bit late for winter), with 10/15k of wind as forecast. Needed to rig my new 3mm spi halyard which extended rigging time somewhat but I was finally on the water around 1.30.
No wind!
Drifted for 1/2 an hour then some fluky 2/3k stuff started but it was swinging 90deg, very frustrating. Got a decent spi run in a 5 min. gust then it died again. Not long after that the tackline detached from the sail? (bad knot) <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

After a slow trip back to the beach and an equally slow tacking feast back out, I finally got to set the kite again only to discouver that when I had re-attached the tackline (without setting the kite) (blunder) I'd created a huge tangle/twist in the kite. I gave up.

Except for dropping the mast during de-rigging, <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> it was a good day........NOT!

New halyard is great and my recent change to a 1:1 tackline was a success cutting down on residual and making setting and retrieval much smoother. Not all bad I guess.

Question;
At present, because I'm not trapping with the kite, I tie the ends of the spi sheet together which keeps them tidy and on the boat but there isn't enough length rigged this way to trap. I'd need to leave the ends loose which will make it more difficult to locate them during tacks and jibes and keep them on the boat. [I'm sailing single handed].

What do other single handers do to address this?