Some things I do on the Tornado:

1. Run the halyard prior to raising the mast...tie off at base and then run it to the sail after mast is up.

2. Leave the spin tack line completely in place. There is enough slack and play in the tack slack sucker bungee to lay the spin pole/snuffer backwards on top of the tramp for trailering.

3. Mid-pole stays are attached to "D" shackles at the bridle tangs. The shackle pins are used instead of a separate ring-pin to also hold the bridle forks to the bow tang. The "D" shackle makes a nice place to tie off the mid-pole stays. The stays are left attached to the shackles once removed from the tangs. The pole end of each stay is just an eye splice "luggage-tagged" around the pole. The stays are 3mm Vectran which is very easy to eye-splice. The gunwale ends get 1/8" stainless sailmaker thimbles on the inside of another eyesplice. The thimble then goes on the shackle. This prevents chafing.

4. The Pole end stays are similar. Big Eye splices looped over the pole end. I left plenty of extra tails & made the splices 2 or 3 times the pole diameter to allow forquick length/tension changes. The bow tips on my boat have stainless eye-bolts embedded in epoxy. I just luggage tag the eye-spliced end of each stay through the eye-bolt. This is super easy to remove after slipping the pole ends off.

5. Once all stays and forestay post is off the pole, I disconnect the pin at the main beam, lift the pole up and fold it back onto the tramp. Bungees are used to hold it down. Sheets, halyard (once off the mast) are stuffed into the aft end of the snuffer bag. Sail remains in the snuffer.


I also have a snuffer cover I will put on prior to folding the pole back.