Putting stopper knots in spinnaker sheets is very bad practice.
If you ever broach and need to compleatly and instantly let the sheets
fly ..... you wind up on your side or worse and I guarantee that you
will have NO time to cut one of the sheets.
If it gets 'that bad' that the spinnaker is held only by its halyard
(and sheets free) you can always grab one of the free sheet ends and
let the halyard fly..... and save the boat.




In article
ble.rogers.com,
DARat wrote:

I'm having a hard time with no stopper knots in spinnaker sheets/guys as you
may wish to let
them fly "presumably" in emergency. I'll counter that with if the sheets
run out on
a spinnaker then you've got a rather large flag flying from the top of your
mast....or
at least 3/4 if your fractional rigged. I can't imagine that being any
better than
stopped sheets run all the way out, and having someone with a bit of
foresight to
release the halyard...at least that way you can recover the spin from the
bottom.

If things it too far beyond that, you can always cut away the lines...

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