Originally Posted by
ebijack
Depends on what your running. With cranks and jets you can free spool but with any diving/weighted system you can really run into trouble. Usually I will take the outside board rod, go to the back corner of the boat and raise the rod as high as I can. this slowly gets the out side or really any board to fall back out of formation. Once there is enough room to clear the other lines ( reason for the out side to be the highest in the water column) point the rod at the opposite corner of the boat ( other boards) and real like crazy. If required, adjust the steering of the boat to help. Or, if you run your boards so the front clip releases, just pop the rod butt, the clip releases and the board goes behind the boat automatically. Then to reset your line, run it out the back of the boat far enough so you can swing it right back into where it was in formation. I can run 5 Offshores/side doing this method. With the Church boards for me they run further back at an angle and I have more trouble trying to do what I stated above. All just a learning curve. Hope that makes sense.