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"Nigel" wrote:

How about it, can anyone persuade me not to put a Stopper Knot in my
sheets??

(You see, I'm getting old and grouchy to.)


A stopper knot could prevent you from dumping the sheet in an emergency,
probably more important with spinnakers and large genoas than jibs.

When our boat was brought around from Nassau to Coral Harbour
(Bahamas) after Bob had his heart attack, the skipper who brought it
around put knots in the end of the jib sheets and all the other lines
too. They are still there, or at least there are some there now.


grandma Rosalie