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    Posted: 08 Jul 10 at 9:00pm

Originally posted by JimC

Originally posted by asterix

does anyone have a ratchet in their kite halyard system to stop it dropping in the water as soon as you uncleat the uphaul? 

The helmsman's foot usually performs that function, whilst at the same time he will be denying he's got his foot on anything...

Knots work quite well for that too. Ask Fliptop.
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In a singlehanded boat e.g. Musto/ 700, then all the crew weight has to move inboard to recover the kite.  Priority is to get the kite down ASAP while keeping the boat flat.  Normal technique is to ease main, bear away onto very broad reach, over sheet,  take all of slack out of the kite downhaul, uncleat the spinnaker halyard, and pull down quickly. 

The course described during the perfect Musto drop would not look the same as the perfect 49er or 800 drop where the helm can stay out on the wire.
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It also depends if you have a tide to deal with if i am coming in against the tide i drop the kite almost on the bouy on a dead run if i have the tide behind me i start about five boat lenghs from the bouy as if you drift wide on the bouy after the drop someone else can get up inside you.
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1. Late is much much much slower than early.

2. Pull the retrieval line on (or gather the foot in -
bags) before releasing the halyard.
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