3. Release the main halyard on the starboard side of the cockpit, to a predetermined point.
(marking the halyard with ink or a colored thread into the line is helpful.) Recleat the
halyard after lowering.
4. Pull the luff and leach cringles down to the boom by pulling the reefing line through the
blocks with the port cockpit winch and cleat off. .
5. Trim in the mainsheet.
6. Tie off remaining reef points with lines around boom.
7. Snug up the main halyard as required to flatten out the mainsail.
8. Ease the topping lift.
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