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truenorth wrote:My boat will definitely have a cleated mainsheet block. The manual very strongly recommends against one, but I think that has more to do with the realities of inexperience. In other words, the manual has to speak to the lowest common denominator of sailors.
The mainsheet should still never leave your hand, but it's more to be at the ready to uncleat it in a dramatic situation instead of actually applying tension.
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