Chris9 I think you have good point with adding mesh to the bottom of spinnaker suck or maybe even making the whole bag out of mesh.

Talking about ripped bags. See picture. When I was done sailing I took spinnaker pole with me to fix it. I left it by the car and went to get more stuff. When I came back the pole was few feed away from my car. I think the car parked next to me had to caught it when it was pulling back and drag it for a while.

The pole is made of aluminum it looks like galvanized steel because it was painted before and I scraped the paint. Also I used aluminum rivets to attached support wires to the pole. Big mistake one of them snapped when I had my spinnaker up and almost bent/broke the pole. Now I will replace then with stainless steel rivers or just ss screws.

It would be tough to add additional 8” to rise the bridle foil I have furling jib and not much space left. Has anyone done it???