Bill, Assuming your spin halyard is run aft, I've crewed on boats that have a cam cleat on the mast that can temporarily stop the halyard. The mast person is the only one doing the hoist. Eliminates the pit person having to tail the halyard. Once the chute is up, the halyard tail can be pulled through the rope clutch. Just have to remember to release it from the cam cleat before the drop.
It can be set up so it pops out of the cleat when the halyard is ground tight by a cabin top winch. Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Bill Coleman <colt...@verizon.net> wrote: > We are usually light handed on crew, and it is a big sail. If I had 8 > great > crew maybe I would be apt to launch bare in heavier air, but mostly we > don't. > Once on one of our Fall Cruise across the lake, one of the guys > instinctively grabbed the Spinnaker halyard harder as it started to get > away, and got some very bad burns, and it was only blowing 15. I like the > control and relative safety of a banded sail. > >
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