Folks,
I have double ratchets and the loading from the kite on the F16 with this setuo is quite light yet I am trialling cleats on the gunwale each side just behind the side stay.
Sailing one up I use them as my temporary crew when I need another hand.
I don't sail the boat with the spinnaker cleated.
I'm not quite that crazy.
But if I need to adjust my mainsheet setting I just pop the kite into the cleat, make the change and pull it out.
Another thing which I'm working on is making much quicker jibes one up.
The big advantage between two up and one up sailing apart from raising and dropping the kite is jibes. I worked on this and found it was causing me to capsize so I decided to
add another pair of hands in the cleats to help me out. You see these two up guys can jibe with almost no loss.
They do this by taking all the slack out of the lazy spi sheets so when they jibe the spi is already trimmed when it pops.
So if I cleat the spi just before the jibe I can pull in the slack on the lazy sheet. As I cross to the other side the spi sheet is pulled out of the cleat and the spi is sheeted on.
It is just "pop" and the jibe is done.
I would not have bothered with the cleats except up against the side stay chainplate they are out of the way.
I don't like boats that bite- so I won't put anything on my boat that is in the way and can take skin.
Just the way I see it.
Regards,
Phill

I know that the voices in my head aint real,
but they have some pretty good ideas.
There is no such thing as a quick fix and I've never had free lunch!