3rd Reef in Main?

[prv]

lash it into a boom-cradle as was normal a number of decades ago,

Kindred Spirit has a wooden boom-crutch - and certainly in rolly seas it was very comforting to get the end of the boom into that fork and strapped down tight. You go from having a swinging club above you to a rigid handhold.

Pete

 

[Simondjuk]

I'd be making use of my 3rd reef if going to windward tonight.