"SkitchNYC" wrote in message

The guy is led normally back to the stern.

If the tack is close to the headstay, it seems the guy would rub on the
shrouds.

If I understand your question, you may be confusing a tack downhaul line
with a guy. With a Tacker in place, there essentially is no guy. Rather, a
line from the tack of the chute keeps the Tacker/tack from rising up the
forestay. It feeds through a block at the base of the forestay chainplate
and leads aft to the cockpit. Gybing the chute requires releasing the sheet
and allowing the chute to gybe outboard of the forestay while bringing the
sheet around the forestay manually. Or if the air is light enough, one
could walk the sheet and sail inboard of the forestay to "gybe." The latter
will wrap the chute halyard around the forestay, though. I've got double
sheets on my spinnaker, so I release the old leeward sheet and allow the
sail to gybe outboard of the forestay while sheeting in on the new sheet.
Takes lightweight line, however, or the weight of the sheets will keep the
sail from flying in light air.

'Zat help?

XR