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Once you feel you have a good understanding of how to handle the chute practice in fairly light air.
It may help if you "band' the chute the first few times you fly it. Get 4 fairly light rubber bands that fit around the chute loosely and as you pack the chute slide the bands over it starting about 4' up from the clews evenly spaced up to the head. Depending on wind speed this will keep the chute from opening until its at full hoist. Ive also seen this done with strong thread.
on a 27' you wont need to do this once you get the hang of things. On bigger boats they sometimes keep an old bucket with the bottom cut out loaded with rubber bands. As they pack the chute they run it through the bucket and slide a band off here and there, especially used in heavy air.
Note: in the light stuff you may need to break the bottom band to help fill the chute the others should break away.
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