Jibing a chute is at least a part of the joy.
I'm still not sure what a clew line is, or how it helps to unload the weight of sheets from the clew of the asymetric.
But we do use only one sheet for our asymetric. We are cruisers, so gybing the sail by letting out one sheet until the spinnaker is flying straight off the bow, then hauling in in the other sheet to set the sail on the other side - well we just don't need the maneuver enough to buy, rig, and store all that line.
Instead, when we do need to gybe, here is our procedure:
1. Ease the sheet.
2. Go forward and drop the sock over the spinnaker.
3. Gybe the main onto the new course.
4. Coil the sheet at the sock.
5. Carry the sock around the forestay.
6. Take the sheet back to the snap shackle on the other side of the boat, and rig it forward to the sheet winch on that side.
7. Raise the sock and deploy the spinnaker.
8. Trim the spinnaker on the new course.
We only need this maneuver a few times summer, and it's almost always needed in light winds and on or near a run, so hiking to the bow isn't very exciting.
Having a chute isn't about boat speed, thought it helps. It's about having all that cloth up there. You know it is.
Jibing the sail is part of that. Being able to jibe down a bay, slowly swinging the sail around without a fuss. Perhaps a part of it is that I have always sailed multihulls and we never sail dead down wind. A-chutes don't go dead down wind on any boat, so why try?
With an auto pilot, an outside jibe up to ~ 12 knots true is a one-person job. Prepare both sheets, put a single wrap on the lazy side and pull out the slack, hit the auto-tack button, ease the loaded side slowly as the boat turns until the sail is straight out, then haul in on the otherside while continuing the turn. Finished before the single-sheet boat has the sleave down. Watch the slack - you don't want to run over a sheet.
Remmember, this is for an outside jibe - the sheets must be rigged forward of the tack. Inside jibes are are for very fast boats if the wind is up, and sometimes, for slower boats when the wind is VERY light, but someone needs to be on the bow.
Don't tie the tack line to the pulpit unless you like leaks. It moves it around and could bend it in a blow. The PO did that and I got to rebed the railing.
The PO of my boat had a single sheet and a sock. I did it that way once, found the line on-board for a second sheet, and never looked back. I do like the sock, mostly because it serves as a sail bag.
