Bart Senior wrote:

1 point to Doug.
A stopper knot works well in this case.

"DSK" wrote


Aside from using a preventer or boom brake,
what is a simple way to ensure your boom doesn't
hit the shrouds in a hard gybe?

1- pull the main sheet in enough & cleat it (actually, your main sheet
should be cut a length such that the stopper knot hits the block just
before the boom hits the shrouds, but it's amazing how few people attend
to little details like this)

Yeah, that'll work, assuming you are willing to give up some downwind
performance by not allowing your main to go out all the way. I like to
let it out all the way, loosen up the rig tension and then have the
crew push agressively on the boom to get the main out as far as
possible. A stopper knot doesn't allow this.



//Walt