Responding to my own thread, (for latecomers, the question was how to
avoid sheet chafe on a poled-out genoa - I left the original below for
the curious) I have the solution:

Talking with a Seven Seas Cruising Association Commodore who's
anchored next to us yesterday, we learned the way he did his pole. I
see no reason it would not cure our problem.

He'd been wing/wing on an Atlantic passage, for days at a time. He
used a snatch block to the pole jaw, with the sheet passing through
the block, rather than the jaw.

You could still furl with the pole in place, pull the pin if you had
to unhook quickly, but had no chafe issues.

Thanks for all the contributors to this thread. I'll try to come back
with a log posting sometime soon, but we're too busy lately to take
the time. Today is resew (restitch) the MackPack, redo the lazy jacks
locations, and try to ameliorate the butcher job the guy I had our new
main sent to last year, the worst end result being that the battens
catch on the way up, others being mere nuisances.

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"Skip Gundlach" wrote in message
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Well, not a joke...

We like using our spinnaker pole (we don't have a whisker pole) to
hold our genoa out in dead-downwind or there-abouts situations.
We can rig it so we can furl the genny if needed, by putting the
sheet through the jaw, and of course can also release it readily.
We have a topping lift for the pole and fore and after guys. As
we always use it that way, we're able to "set it and forget it" by
markings on the guys, placing it in the same position each time.
The pole rides on a mast track on the other end.

However, in really rolly stuff, the sail moves around enough that
the sheets also move in the jaw, leading to chafe.

So, a couple of questions...

Given a spin pole rather than a whisker, and the need, perhaps, to
furl the genny quickly (and the jaw not being big enough to attach
to the clew), is there a better way to rig?

Secondly, for those advocating this modus, how do you avoid
chafing the sheets?