No fair!

The Nonsuch has a self tending everything, and uses no Genoa.

As the question of relieving jibsheet pressure on winches, and more
particularly on the winchers, winchees, and crew generally seems
related to managing stress while cruising with a genoa under heavy
pressure, possibly with a winch knot, (which was not mentioned by any
geniuses out there, the answer in extremis being "a knife",) was most
correctly addressed by finding a way to eliminate the problem, not
using sheet winches, nor overloading them, nor needing a fat genoa to
be rescued in the first place, nor needing to affect jib trim in any
way while tacking, was germane.

More discussion with this original poster has been removed from this
despicable gaggle of supposed lazy hairy bags, so as not to offend the
easily offended. We need offer no defense.

Apologies would be noticed.

You have nothing to lose except a bad attitude.

I am sorry if the attributions seem to swing an insult into the wrong
face. Please consider, I am not going to analyze or remember who
brought this about, but instead simply reply as the last nameless,
shocking message I hope to see in this arena.

What follows is probably more than a four line .sig; depends on how
wide your monitors add up to. D'ough!

Terry K

-Gadget vendors unite! Advertise the useless at higher prices than the
merely practical. Loudly call bugs "Features!" and wait for the public
to beat down the grass in your front yard, asking for refunds. Most
won't. For instance, a traveller cannot automatically increase twist in
a gust, as can a bridle, yet those who have paid for travellers must
defend them as themselves.

A genoa cannot stand much gust without being replaced. Furlers save
genoas, but make reasonably sized sails unsafely inconvenient. A
reefy-furled genoa is useless in a blow, even dangerous for a cruiser.
Besides, genoas cost too much, so furlers seem cheap to some. "There is
nothing half so much fun..."

There are more dollars than sense, and more advertising than useful,
inexpensive products, which need no advertising. Good ideas need no
advertising, just ask.

Advertising is an expensive gadget. The wind is not free, but to enjoy
it you must pay by understanding something, by hearing what has not
been said. (Copyright reserved SofDevCo, TM. Under present law, this
probably makes you all criminals, somewhere.)

Now, who was arguing about top posting?
-T Do I need to resequence, or should I just add
P.S?
And now, for some more defaced grafitti: -suck you.

@-Toothy