Rondo APPLICATION AREA: On the front part of the search rail. Advantages: Rondo helps and protects your Genoa. You are freed from having to have one on the foredeck to help the genoa over the search rail. Capsailers always try to avoid people on the foredeck. On the cleats by the splits: Advantages: You reduce wear on the mainsail by bilge, and reduce wear on the foresail by downwind furling. (One of the sailmaker's most frequent jobs is to repair headsails that have been torn to pieces during a turn.) On the upper part of the stern - if the mainsail has continuous staysails: Advantages: When you turn the staysail, the sail flips over much more easily if you have fitted the Rondo its stern. You reduce the risk of the stern being caught by the stern stay. On the baby stay: Advantages: The foresail moves over more easily during stay turns.
