Well, it's only 6 months since Stephen asked the question of how you get the halyard back up the mast, but here goes. Be warned, it's pretty cunning.

You do it before you raise the mast.

That's it. I use a similar method to that which Wouter describes, but I've never understood the difficulty. The line should be long enough: run it along the mast, through the block and tie it back at the base of the mast. Once the mast's up, untie it and attach it to the head of the kite.

Flipping the boat works fine on a sandy beach, but's a real pain in a tarmac car park.

I figured it was time to resurrect the wiki idea, and wrote up my method for storing the kite + snuffer. I go one step further than Wouter and leave the snuffer threaded through the tramp and cleat at all times. This saves crawling around in the mud trying to re-thread the retrieval line from under the boat. See: http://www.formula16.org/wiki/index.php?title=Quick_gennaker_rigging. Desperately needs some photos, but hopefully it's clear.

Someone else can fill in methods for quick tie bridles.

Paul