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Perhaps the Twizzle Rig is the answer?

Something I need to play with as I kept the old genoa as the foil has a second track.
Something like this. Takes some effort to set up but a comfortable and safe way to sail dead downwind. I have a hank on Solent but the principle is the same. Separate sheets with a long release line make it easy to reduce sail or change course leaving the poles in place. Missing on the genoa as i broke the snap shackle the previous day. Wichard only now.IMG-20240610-WA0001.jpg
 

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This video is 5 minutes 40 seconds.
I think it would be difficult to rig a preventer/brake with the number of crew about. A brake might have been nice though. What a big wheel.
 

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This video is 5 minutes 40 seconds.
I think it would be difficult to rig a preventer/brake with the number of crew about. A brake might have been nice though. What a big wheel.
That doesn't look very Chinese to me.
I thought that a Chinese gybe is where the upper part of the main changes to the new tack, but the bottom part does not.
 

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I thought that a Chinese gybe is where the upper part of the main changes to the new tack, but the bottom part does not.
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At least one etymology if from junk rigs with very deep and slender mainsails throughout the luff with long battens, the boom is brought to the new tack while the head of the sail remains on the previous one.

Add. The reference was indicated in sailing/seamanship manuals until the 50/60s, when the kicker +new fabrics etc were introduced and the twist in Marconi rigs could be better controlled. IIRC the Glenans book 1st edition (61/62) showed indeed the drawing of a junk with a snake-like mainsail and a puzzled skipper.
 
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In a dinghy you would call it a death roll. Very wet and usually involving a long swim back to the boat
 

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In a dinghy you would call it a death roll. Very wet and usually involving a long swim back to the boat
Oddly, in a vintage keelboat the ‘death roll’ is fast. As long as you don’t actually ship water of course. Hideously uncomfortable, particularly for the crew, hiking on the downhill side to hold the boom forwards.
 

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I've been saving a nice clean building site helmet for years. Thought I'd be able to bail with it too, when the time came, and now its obsolete, cast on the plastic scrapheap of progress.
I bought a rugby one in case I need to go up the mast at sea (again), I really felt I needed it.
At deck level my boom is high, the mainsheet is forward of the companionway, I guess my risk aversion ends there.
No way I would permanently wear a helmet, pretty much like I would not constantly wear a full climbing harness, not by rational preference but simple assessment of what I do and do not, otherwise it's often an additional piece of equipment gathering mould deep inside a locker. :(
 
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