wrote

Never had any trouble with the bowlines coming out, and I think you
will find you don't in
practice either.

I doubt you would with the well disciplined sail handling of a racer.
A few tacks to set the knots may be enough for even the flogging of a
botched tack. I wouldn't want to tie one of these on and then go
right out and let it flog though.

Thanks for the insight on the gloves. That's exactly the information
I was looking for in my other post.

OTOH, if half the stretch (1.5% vs. 3% at 15% load) would save having
to uncleat and do a half crank after full load comes on the sheet
after each tack, there could be less wear and tear on the hands in the
close in daysailing we do a lot of. That difference works out to just
about the amount of sheet I often find myself sweating in shortly
after each tack.

Then again, I can't think back to figure out if I could just make that
up by cranking until the sail curls around the spreader end a little
harder. Probably I can and use softer sheets without the recranking.

You can tell my previous sailing was about 15 years ago and a lot of
that was in larger and more traditional boats.

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Roger Long