Antoine wrote: "Having the grommet has another advantage. If you have a corresponding grommet on the leach side, you can take a six inch reef (sorry, don't how it's called in English, "ris de fond" in French). This very small reef does not reduce substantially the size of the sail but removes much of the draft. A flatter main points higher and reduce heeling."
It's called a "flattening reef". I raced on a Pearson Flyer with one. It seemed to help when the wind piped up. Read about it in the "Mainsheet and Traveler" section: <http://www.ullmansails.com/technique.aspx?q=66&y=2008&c=5> Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA > >
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