[quote=arch]i'm going to be rigging my second spin cat this spring and i've been thinking about the downhaul line. on my last spin cat (F18) i ran the downhaul line up thru the grommets and terminated it at the upper (2nd) grommet, not at the head of the spinnaker. seems like i've seen it this way on lots of cats.
but now i'm wondering if i shouldn't run it all the way to the head of the spin, where the spin halyard connects to reduce the stretching effect on the fabric between the halyard and the top grommet that is down a few feet? if the halyard gets locked into it's cleat or tangled or the crew is kneeling on it when simultaneously pulling the downhaul hard to drop the spin aren't we stressing/stretching the top few feet of fabric?
anyone rig theirs this way?
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