My sail uses euphroes so I am considering adding a long springy rubber bungee cord to the euphroe to pull the euphroe forward when tacking to keep the sheetlets from blowing back and getting caught on the leech.  It may be a while before I try it since I need to make some new battens first along with trying to wrap up a lot of land based stuff.

To follow up on my previous post, our sheets are attached to the battens a little less than a meter in from the leech and the battens are flush with the leech.  The boom sticks out a little past the leech.  The manner in which the sheets catch the leech is exactly as shown in the "Practical Junk Rig" drawing in the double sheet discussion.

Thank you for your replies Amos and Shemaya and merci to Eric.

I think we will cut some windows in the sail about 1 metre in from the leach, as you suggest Eric, and try the double sheeting. As you all know any stray line that can catch will sooner or later but if the double sheeting works, I will tidy up the leach, making it as smooth as possible, to avoid any potential problem areas. On our previous boat Pacific Spray there were much less snarl ups after we changed to double sheeting. I have reread your article in Issue 70, Shemaya, and the idea of getting the sheets out of the cockpit really appeals to me, especially on a small boat, where there is nowhere to hide or duck. 

Bonjour

If you have double sheeting, you don't have to fix the sheeting to the leach; it may be fited forwad on the batten.

I've modified Mingming, but didn't test her yet, with double sheeting in order to set lambda sheeting (two sheeting points on a single batten with an horizontal span). Le forward one is about one meter from the leach and the rear one is on the previous single sheeting holding point.

My goal was to set more flexible batten, specially at the rear part of the sail, in order to have more camber by light wind while limiting the camber when the wind increases.

Eric

We are contemplating trying side by side double sheeting on Blondie. The advantages that we see are:

* Sheets will not cross the cockpit area leaving our hats and heads in place

* Access out of the hatch will much easier

* The sheets and sheetlets will not get caught around the boom or batten ends on the leach, unlike single sheeting

* We can install a small Bimini in the cockpit to keep out of the sun

* The double sheets will firmly hold the bundle in place at anchor or on the mooring

The disadvantages are:

* The distance from the boom to the 2 new sheeting points maybe too short and prevent the sail from setting correctly

* A bit of tricky work attaching the sheets to both sides of the battens

* More sheet handling

* More lines and blocks to buy