RS Feva s/h: too few hands...

regarding the halyard, i find holding both sheets on the tiller whilst reaching dorward to pull in the slack, bringing slack back to the tiller, raching forward and holding downhaul whilst flicking off te cleat and then hauling in using tiller hand aswell ( at this point dropping spinny sheet.) the modification with bungee between the jib cleats really helps with this. i have tried having both sheets in one hand but now prefer to have the spiny iin the forehand and the main with the tiller, but holding both together in the forehand when i i need to sheet in the main. versy shifty and gusty on our lake and this means i can ditch the main to concentrate on the spiny when i need to . i am not in favour of mainsheet cleats, have one on the 200 and it always gets stuck on a tricky tack in strong wind. realistically sailing ia feva s/h is fun but not competitive and you just need to try and be in control as much as possible.😃

Two tricks to dropping a Feva kite. The first is to make sure that the corners where the metal tube taking the forestay meets the moulding is well taped up and rounded off to reduce the chance of the patches not making it through. The other is to bear off as low as possible, with some windward heel, as you would sail the boat in light, non-planing conditions, so that instead of being pulled in, the kite falls vertically into the chute and does most of the work for you.