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Originally Posted by TomP
Your best bet, when flying the spins...and I am assuming that the pilot is now the only soul on board and has to deal with the quick stop and turn on his/her own...is to let loose the halyards on the spins. Sure, they will shrimp, which will also aid in slowing the boat.
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My question was with respect to rig loads under the assumption that no sail changes are made -- a Quick Stop response while downwind sails are flying.
There is more opinion than data about responding to crew overboard. Quite properly there is a lot of judgment required of those left in command aboard. Repeated practice educates that judgment. I have read as many case studies of crew overboard situations as I can find. For what it is worth, I have concluded that spending time and attention on sail changes (even trimming) and putting the transmission in gear are the two most likely actions to cause a crew overboard situation to go from bad to worse. The simplest and most telling collection of case studies is found
here.
So all that said, my next set of crew overboard drills (when it gets warmer and starting in lighter winds) will include Quick Stops under spinnaker.