Don't think I'd want to be impaled by the receiving end!
"Bart Senior" wrote in message
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That's an interesting idea--tossing the pole around the forestay.

OzOne wrote

Another boat from way back had an assymetric spinnaker that was
attached to the pole.
Gybing and tacking required the mast end of the pole to be removed and
the pole thrown over the forestay and picked up on the other side.
These things always carried kites in light air uphill because the
chute was cut more like a jib than spinnaker...the original screecher
from the 50's