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Anyone have experience with a H170 spinnaker? I've got one and flown it a few times up to 10 kts; works pretty well. Two questions: 1) the rigging diagram shows the "lazy" spinnaker sheet run between the tack line and the furled jib; when jibing, it's fairly tricky to pull the leach across this narrow slot without wrapping on the tack and/or jib. Alternative is to run it in front of the tack line but downside is possiblilty of losing the lazy sheet beneath the boat... Anybody have experience here? 2) the spinnaker is designed to be used with a "continuous" sheet; the few times I've used it it's worked fairly well but I can see the potential for line wraps/snags putting you in at risk for capsize. I know someone who pitchpoled a larger boat with a continuous jib sheet which snagged. Alternative is to cut the jib sheet and install cleats so you could more readily blow the spinnaker if in trouble. Any experience and/or input would be much appreciated.