Howdy Keith,



Spinnakers are great fun hey. I have a combined tack line and spinnaker halyard on my Tornado but use a shoot that is sewn diagnally under my tramp with the mouth in the front port corner of the tramp. Great system and very user frendly. Less windage than a bag or pole shoot and realy cleans up the deck. I retreive from 2 points but on smaller tramps try 3 points. This system you do not have any excess halyard.



If you want to stick with the bag, tie the tail of the halyard to the head of the kite and the excess will go up the mast and not out the back.



Question for all you guys. The halyard is technicaly part of the boat so if it is draging behind do other boats have to stay clear. And what happens when you gybe at a mark and the halyard hits the mark. Do you do a 360 turn??????



Regards

Stephen Medwell

www.tornadoalive.com