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Originally Posted by PPLepew
I just loosen the Lazy-Jacks and tighten them with two 4' bungee cords towards the mast. You can leave them on as you sail, preventing your sail bag to drop below boom level.
I'd send you a picture, but am too lazy to go set it up right now. 
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Same problem as the OP, often solo and with home of gusty winds of rapidly variable direction.
Motor 2 knts straight into it on AP and by the time you've run to the base of the mast the gust direction has changed. On a bad day you'd try re-adjusting AP direction two or three times, or just wait until the wind swings back, which might or might not happen before running out of space in the inner harbour, and that's when there's not much other traffic, and no pesky fleet of
kayak tourists dead ahead, taking photos before their panic sets in.
Very NOT looking pro-cool.
Motoring 5-10 degrees off wind direction, and as said already lazy jack's re-rigged so the main support line is run through a block in the spreader and instead of being permanently fixed there, run back down to two
cleats positioned on the mast near the main
winch fixed it most of the time. Having the stern-most lazyjack boom line (that was attached closest to the end of the boom) also detachable so it could be run forward to pull the collapsed lazyjack arrangement out of the way to the extend required would have been a further improvement.
Reason for motoring off wind direction and the two new mast
cleats is to allow you to only collapse the downwind side of the lazyjacks, to save a minute of uncleating/recleating.
Could never understand why this arrangement is not standard when riggers are first installing (or in my case retrofitting) lazyjacks.
Oh - of course you've got your mainsheet running free?