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77Gypsy
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Initially Posted - 06/30/2003 :  14:55:57  Show Profile
i sailed gypsy on satrurday afternoon/evening and was using my spinnaker, "good quality specifically designed for the C25," my question is, i attached the tack around the forstay wrapped around the rolled up jib, I was wondering if i could fly it more efficiantly if i attached the tack to the bow instead with a 3 or so foot line? rather than flying her high up on the rolled up jib.

Steve
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 07/01/2003 :  08:00:17  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
After looking at your spinaker set up in your other picture, I would definitely recommend using a line attached to your bow stem.

dw

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Bill Holcomb
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Response Posted - 07/01/2003 :  09:59:37  Show Profile
Hi Steve,

Duane is absolutely correct. Use a line from stem fitting to your chute's tack corner.

I've got a small block shackled to the stem fitting so that my spinnaker tack line can be adjusted from the cockpit........lower tack for beam reaching and higher tack for broad reaching.

Bill Holcomb - C25 Snickerdoodle #4839

BTW: You should take a close look at your furler's forestay extrusion. The pictures you posted on the other Q&A look as though there might be quite a kink left in the extrusion.
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