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How to rig/fly a spinnaker?

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seastream
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Initially Posted - 02/17/2004 : 20:51:40

In addition to the mainsail, roller furling jib, and 150 % genoa, a spinnaker (asymmetrical, I think) with sock came with my C25 along with a dedicated halyard for raising it. I've never flown a spinnaker before. I figured out how the spinny is raised in its' sock and deployed from the sock once raised, but I'm not clear on how the tack and clew are to be rigged. I believe the spinny can be flown as a 'drifter' (like a huge jib) off either bow with the tack fastened to the bowsprit and a line off the clew led aft but also think it can be flown straight out in front, in which case you bring lines fitted to both tack and clew aft. Then you also need a 'bridle' or 'whisker pole' (I think) which are contrivances to hold the foot of the spinny down, which I don't have. Am I even close to right here? I'd love to try the spinny out this season, albeit in close to dead air for cautions sake.

Seastream

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 02/18/2004 : 09:07:54

For a while it seemed as if every loft was inventing their own variation on the polless spinnaker. Because of that it is difficult to comment on your sail and how to fly it. I would call the sailmaker and ask.

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wmeinert@kconline.com
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Response Posted - 02/18/2004 : 09:17:37

If it is an asemetrical no proplems, the tack and clue are well marked and easy to rig, there are many articles in magazines that show you how. If the boat was rigged when you bought it, the general rule of thumb is that it should have been ready to go. If you have a full ballon a whisker pole would have been on the boat I would have thought. Asemetricals are great, if rigged right the work great as a drifter and you can tack up wind with them too. Practice Practice, an asymetrical can also be flown as a triditional spiniker too, and in my opinion is a much better package than just having a full spiniker.

Bill Meinert
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Gary B.
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Response Posted - 02/18/2004 : 11:03:53

Not everybody does this, but I fly it like a big genoa, with the tack held by a sliding pennant, controlled from the cockpit...Up for downwind, down hard for a tighter luff when trying to sail more upwind. I jibe the thing through the foretriangle. ....(I know...somebody's gonna ring in that it isn't the way it should be done, but it works for me...). Both sheets are light and attached on the clew, like a jib/genoa....I race with mine, so I have ditched the sock...it hung up on me too many times....I can single hand with this spinnaker up (sock is good here) and have many times...sometimes in a fair amount of air...It's a gas, and not nearly as intimidating as it first looks! Good luck! You'll soon love it!

I do not use a pole with this set up.

I also am rigged with all the gear for a symmetrical spinnaker, but it takes too many experienced people to fly it.

Gary B.
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 02/18/2004 : 13:31:01

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by seastream
 In addition to the mainsail, roller furling jib, and 150 % genoa, a spinnaker (asymmetrical, I think) came with my C25...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

If the luff/leech measurements of your spinnaker are of equal length, then it is a symmetrical spinnaker.

If the luff/leech measurements are not equal...say a foot or two different...then it is probably an asymmetrical cruising chute.

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jheard
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Response Posted - 02/18/2004 : 18:44:30

An asymmetrical spinnaker is flown without a pole. The head is attached to the spinnaker block at the top of the mast which is outside the headstay. The tack is attached to a line which goes through a block at the pulpit (outside the stay) and ties to the bow cleat or runs aft to the cockpit. On my boat, there is a tang (piece of metal) on the bow with a hole in it that I attach a turning block on the tang. There is a cam cleat on my cockpit coaming for the tack line.

The sheets both attach to the clew. The lazy sheet is run outside the forestay. The sheets lead aft to a turning block on the stern. On my boat, the genoa track goes all the way to the stern so I have two genoa cars on each track. The forward genoa car is for the jib/genoa and is low. The aft genoa car is for the spinnaker sheet and is high.

The sheet goes through the turning block on the stern forward to your cockpit winch.

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