Thanks Jackdaw for that explanation and the Soak Halyard clip - that is new to me. Locally we tend to launch from a bag usually clipped to the bow rail in front of the forestay. Or on some boat clipped to the life lines under the jib. Some boats launch from the hatch typically out of a laundry basket. Upon thinking about this and wondering why we don't use your SOP more and I think it's because we don't do windward/leeward courses - hardly ever. So a typical race will be upwind, a bear away spinnaker set, maybe a gybe or so, and a leeward takedown. That's it. It's our loss that we don't do W/L courses.
So I like your method. Everything is attached, you don't waste time attaching control lines approaching the mark, nobody on the foredeck as you approach the mark and your ready for a re-set. The keys are to use a windward takedown and always approach the mark on starboard (Or on the same tack)? I'm going to put some of the soak clips in my ditty bag for when I whore around the fleet.
We like to have the pole under the lazy jib sheet but if we gybe the pole often ends up over the jib sheet. How do you handle that?