Spray skirts and keep out lines

If you get spray skirts do they also serve as keep out lines for amas? Or is it better to have solely devoted keep out lines? I’m a newbie with 2020 TI. Does anyone have pics of how they configured their keep out lines? I assume it’s as simple as attach a line from front aka to front of boat. Thanks for the help. This forum is great.

Sprayskirts can help slow an ama from folding in (or folding in completely), but not under heavy load at faster sailing speeds. A keep out line from the bow to the aka/ama and back to the hull would be best.

They were designed to keep most of the water from the bow area from landing on our face, chest, lap, and legs. When made of mesh material (shade cloth) they also do not catch the wind or hold the water which can effect controlling the boat.

Sprayskirts Do keep the front aka from disconnecting which has been a problem from time-to-time but Hobie has corrected this a few times with minor design changes (mostly had to do with production tolerances and/or wear).

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Hobie Island Sailing since 2006

Here are picts of my Keep Out and Keep In lines -- with the front lines integrated with my sprayskirt. I used anchor points that I can connect/disconect quickly; to ease AMA/AKA assembly/disassembly and sprayskirt removal. If your AMA's/AKA's stay attached, then spectra loops alone (without the clips/bungees) would be simpler.

Keep Out/In line (using starboard spray skirt) overview:


Keep Out line (front hull anchor point):


Front Keep Out/In line (Front AKA anchor point; holds both sprayskirt and AKA bar, using 1 foot spectra loop around AKA, held to hull with ball bungee):


Front Keep Out line (rear sprayskirt hull anchor point):


Keep Out line (AMA anchor point):



Rear Keep In line (Rear AKA anchor point - spectra loop hold AMA to hull with ball bungee):