Thanks Tony for the first picture, that's how I"m going to run it in this years GT300.

I think so Azcat, and I reallyt like your avatar! She still around?

21 years, I think.

[quote=Tony_F18]Picture of our spinsheet setup: http://1drv.ms/1OJTzNh

Off topic: I took some very cool pics of some cats overhere in Carnac, France:
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Tony, what is the single block on the bungee at the skipper position, stb hull , white line exiting?

Also, if you're not using a take up strop on your clue to get rid of your spinnaker sheets, you're ending up with a lot of sheet on the tramp when the kite is snuffed, correct?

Also, lets say you're doing a distance race and basically on one tack/jibe for many hours and you wanted to run the sheet from the clew, theu a block on the clew and have the end attached to the shroud (cleat, ball and loop, etc.) to make it much easier to work the sheet:

In the case of the spin sheet being run with:
A pagtail burried in the middle of the line tied to the spin clew and the ends tied off or tied together at the back:

That method kinda make it impossible to so that.

Any other options? I may go with a block on the clew on the port sheet side/so when sheeting on a starboard my crew has a 2:1 on the spin sheet.

If you taper the ends of the spin sheet, the knot(s) at the clew won't interfere with anything... and still leave you the option of the 2:1 setup mentioned earlier.

Can you get an auto-ratchet block with becket arrangement? That would give you an anchor point for the 2:1 when needed.

That's the spinnaker's tackline.
It goes from under the front beam to a block at the shrouds, through the block you referenced and back to the shroud where its spliced to the block's center.
Normally tack lines are 1:1 but this one's 1:2 so I only have to pull halve the length, the line is thinner than standard to not add any extra friction while pulling.

Got it

Okay Tony, so your Spinnaker sheets dead and on top of the tramp but a small attached line goes through a turning block, under the tramp and is connected to the other side. On the way across the bottom of the trap you have a block on a bungee pulling the slack out of that line is that correct? Or is that just a bungee attached to the end of your Spinniker sheet? I have attempted this in the past and didn't have good results so I took it off . But I did not taper the spinnaker sheet either, that would actually be a very good idea . Has anyone used this set up in conjunction with the strap on the clue of the kite that gets rid of the spin sheets pulling them into the sock?