I recently looked into gloves from the aspect of crewing on a spin boat (Tornado) after a test sail using my usual Harken Black Magic gloves left my hands pretty beat up. I was having to take wraps on my hands that left me wanting the padding that the Sailing Angles gloves offered. After talking with the folks at Annapolis Performance Sailing I ended up getting a pair of the new Ronstan Sticky race gloves, three finger. Could not have been happier - the sticky material virtually eliminated the need for taking a wrap in the first place. After trying the Sailing Angles gloves, the padding that I thought I wanted felt like it was going to bunch up, making gripping the line without a wrap real tough, and it did not seem that they had any sticky to them at all. For my usual week night racing the Harken gloves work good, they're sticky enough and I'm not working the chute (good crew, good crew...).



Another thing that may help - we added a pair of auto-ratchets as the turning blocks for the spin sheet ratchet blocks. This meant that holding the chute trim required much less pressure, only trimming under load required real stress on the hands. Really nice on a distance race.