Jib sheet Knots

[john_morris_uk]

If you are going to use a single sheet then the sheets will not snag as the OP requires. There are lots of different ways of doing this like your suggestion, dyneema strops, cow hitches or whatever. I am sure we all have our preferences and will argue them till the cow hitches go home.

If, on the other hand you think the ability to detach a single sheet is important (I don't, but that's not important) they you will have to have some type of a knot. Either a stopper type pushing both sheets through thTe clew, or something where the knots are before the clew. Either way the possibility of jamming exists. It all depends on your sails and your boat.

I guess I have been lucky. We have never jammed a sail when tacking. Either that or I bought the right boat. We have used cow hitches, short bowlines, long bowlines and even seized loops.

The trouble is I sort of agree with you and wonder what all the fuss is about. I have nearly always tied the sheets on with bowlines and I can't remember ever having a snagged sheet! I'm certainly not going to die in a ditch over the whole question.

 

[Frayed Knot]

Tops'l sheet-bend. No idea what it is - but it sounds good.

 

[Neeves]

Try: sew each sheet into a hollow tape, or get your sailmaker to do it. Leave enough tape free of the sheet, ie 300mm in the centre, to allow a cowhitch. Cowhitch the tape onto the sail. The tape is then presanted flat and slides over most protrusions.

Jonathan