[quote=yurdle]My guess (as this happens to me constantly) is that when on the wire you sheet in and the slack now between your hand and the boat gets slapped by water, and then everything drags out beneath you.
I wrap the mainsheet around the jib sheet one time before tying to the traveler sheet so to try to help. It seems to cause the mainsheet to wad up into a ball around the jibsheet, but it [i]does [/i]help keep the mainsheet from pulling all the way out into the water.[/quote]
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