They are proper and up to the task.

Consider this: The area of the full sail is 134 square feet.
The first reef point is four feet from the tack and the second
is eight feet from the tack. The fully reefed sail has about
fifty square feet of area. Fifty square feet is not enough to
rip out that webbing and that's a fact. Why, I handle fifty
square feet sails when I'm windsurfing in thirty to forty knots
and my arms have yet to rip off and I bet that webbing and
reinforcing patching is stronger than my arms.

Get a life.

S.Simon

"SkitchNYC" wrote in message ...
Wimp! I can tell you don't have double reef points on your mainsail
custom designed to reduce your sail area to that of a storm trysail
on the deepest reef like I do. Combine this deeply reefed mainsail
with my custom storm jib and I could sail comfortably in forty-five
knots sustained.

Until those sewn-on reef points pull right off the sail, then you are in
trouble. Get a local sailmaker to install proper cringles for the reefs.