Two winkles that are perhaps more relevant to normal sails than to kevlar blades:
Many rig the clew line coming up from one side of the boom, through the cringle, and down to a cheek block on the other. This is supposed to gather the sail. Actually it interferes with a nice set. I rig the line rising from the same side as the block and just a bit ahead of it. If the start is abaft the cheekblock, it may foul under the cheekblock when slack. Anyway, up it goes, through the cringle and back down to the cheek block, crossing the leech on the way down. This is no problem as the reefing clew line lies out of the way when slack and the leech falls out of the way when the reef's set. Doing it this way allows the sail to take a nice clean bunt with the reef cringle pulled down nice and snug to the boom with minimal line in the air. While one might think this sets better if you reef when on the tack with the reef line to weather, it actually does not matter as you reef with the sail luffing anyway.
Secondly, on many boats the geometry is such that if you just peak the boom up a couple of feet before reefing (another reason the topping lift fall should be near the halyard) and snug in the clew after the tack is set, then the foot will tighten rather nicely when the lift is eased.
G'luck.
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