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dasreboot
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Initially Posted - 07/12/2013 :  04:26:28  Show Profile  Visit dasreboot's Homepage
how do you guys attach the tack of your cruising spinnaker? I've seen some options. This option requires me to get a block forward of the stem fitting.

For this one I've been using a sail ties, but I'd like to make some parrel beads.
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Davy J
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Response Posted - 07/12/2013 :  06:25:19  Show Profile
This is what I am currently using. I'm not 100% happy with it, I worry that it might come into contact with the furling drum, (it hasn't yet), but it's working for now:




The larger shackle happened to be in a bag of parts from the PO. It was wide enough to fit over the stem fitting. Maybe someone will have a better idea.
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dasreboot
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Response Posted - 07/12/2013 :  06:32:33  Show Profile  Visit dasreboot's Homepage
did you shackle it to one of the two holes aft of the stem fitting, or just around the stem?
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dasreboot
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Response Posted - 07/12/2013 :  06:36:38  Show Profile  Visit dasreboot's Homepage
this looks cool, maybe a pennant attached to the bow eye with a block on the end.
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 07/12/2013 :  12:24:28  Show Profile
Like Davy, I have a block attached to the stem fitting and after I lost my ATN Tacker over the side, I've use an axle strap (similar to the one pictured below) to secure the tack to the furled sail. The one I have, which came with the boat, has webbing about 3" wide and is about a foot and half long.

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JohnP
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Response Posted - 07/16/2013 :  11:45:37  Show Profile
I installed a block on the stem fitting, and a 4-foot steel cable pennant runs throught the block and connects the gennaker tack and the tack line running back to the cockpit. The pennant has a range of less than 4 feet, but the adjustment of the height of the tack does not need more than that, in my experience. I can haul it down when on a close reach and let it out on a broad reach. I flew the gennaker for a few years with the tack pennant fixed on the stem fitting, and that also worked well, in general.

The block is right next to the forestay, and the pennant swings left and right with the motion of the sail.

I don't use an ATN tacker. I don't know why folks prefer to attach the gennaker tack to the forestay. Maybe others can comment.
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awetmore
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Response Posted - 07/16/2013 :  22:37:53  Show Profile
My Cat-25 didn't have roller furling. We had the block mounted as you do. It worked great.

I like having the gennaker tacked to the forestay because it brings it back towards the centerline of the boat. It lets you sail deeper with the gennaker without and avoiding the annoying gennaker wobble where the sail gets unstable and starts to dance left and right.

I've been experimenting with flying the tack of my gennaker off of a spinnaker pole on my new boat. It works great and lets me bring the sail farther into the wind for better downwind angles. It has the downside of being more complicated to rig than a full symmetric spinnaker, but it can be worth it if we are already flying the asym.
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