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I believe he means that you let out the sheets, not the halyards... You generally don't muck with halyards much when sailing a boat, much less when tacking one. 
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Originally Posted by johnshasteen
Before Paloma, I had a full keel cutter with a self-tending staysail. When tacking, you do exactly what you would do if the you had to tack both sails. You let out quite a bit of halyard on your headsail so it's whipping about, tack, then pull the hedsail through the slot between the headstay and the staysail stay.
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a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
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—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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