Thank you all for your very informative responses. I never considered facing the boat on port tack to unhook sail, but it makes complete sense. i also plan to keep the boat bows down when unhooking to see if that helps. I read carefully about the history of 1918, thank you so much George for the bac...

Hi all, Hope you are all keeping safe and well, and getting some sailing in of course. At Felixstowe we are getting out now, for some social sailing, and the dart 15 I bought last year is proving to be a delightful boat to sail, however unhooking the mainsail off the masthead is a problem, we follow...