LetterBox

Keep in mind that the "Letterbox" is for when you're a bit nervous about doing your regular drop.

Either you can't bear away (leeshore, you're not making the mark already, etc) or your not interested in having people forward.

I use it on Sweet Jane (J-90) when it's smoking and nobody what's to leave the cockpit, or when sailing short-handed. The cool thing is that you can gather the entire foot, inluding the tack, into the cockpit/hatch before you start the halyard down. You've got a lot of control over the sail. The bummer is that you've got to clean it up fast (after the mark) or else everything gets tangled up.