I generally run my downhaul at 4 to 5 on the Ronstan scale with the wrinkles coming out at 3 to 4. I hauled it on to 7 for those conditions and it was remarkably stable considering. I put some luff telltales on before I went out and I definitely needed more rotation so over the last few days I have rebuilt the rotation and the outhaul systems. I put the sail up today and now have a much better system with dealing with rotation and outhaul. In regard to your rotation, do you set and forget or adjust for the conditions? To my thinking you should try and have the lee side of the spanner in line with the apparent wind, (see pic). What do other people try and do?? Obviously you want minimal turbulence on the lee side of the sail..
