Hi Luke,

I was hoping we had a photo of it on the spinnaker rigging page but no such luck (if you have a photo Tim please post it).

I will try to explain but as allways a picture is worth a thousand words. So you tie about .5m of shockcord to the clew of spin and on the other end tie a plastic ring (or anything similar that will not attack the spinnaker) you then pass the return cord through this before putting it through the return cord patches.

When hoisted the return cord should be long enough to not stretch the shockcord, but not have any slack.

The idea is that it pulls the clew towards the return patches which go in the chute first, this means the sheets get pulled deeper in to the chute, taking up the slack on the tramp (if you have centre boom sheeting) or most of the slack for others. Just stops ropes and blocks from hanging in the water more than they have to. As I allways say, it's important to have everything sorted when one up, as nobody to go and tidy up while you are on trap, like a crew boat.