The only time I have cleated the Main and played the traveller was on a long windy wavevy reach. So windy that the traveller stayed alot closer to the leeward hull than centre of the beam and only about 15% of the Main was in use. I was struggling and scared but managed to keep infront of an Inter 20 for the 2km duration. However, on the next bear away at the Windward mark the bows went down the mine and I was soon doing my impression of Superman flying past the hounds, by the time I surfaced the boat had drifted away from me so I ended up swimming back to the Windward mark. In the meantime the rescue boat was frantically carrying out a search for me 200m or so down the run.(Funny how you remember certain races)