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Champipple
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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 15:42:10

John,

What are you calling the Spinaker Tack line??? I have never heard that term before.
duane

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John Mason
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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 16:01:23

I don't know what it's properly called, but on cruising spinnakers the tack seems to be attached to a line that runs through a block at the stem fitting and then aft to the cockpit to allow the foot of the sail to be raised above the bow pulpit. I'm still trying to figure out how to rig it.

John Mason - Ali Paroosa
1982 - FK/SR #3290

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Bill Conger
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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 17:16:13

Duane - regarding # 5.
I'm nearly complete with refinishing all the outside teak: sanded, cleaned, brightened, and six coats of Z-Spar Flagship varnish. This being the 1st time refinishing teak for me, I don't know how long it will last but according to everything I've read, I'll be lucky if it lasts the year, except...
I'm going to use the pop-top cover to cover my teak when not sailing plus spats (Catalina Direct) for the handholds which show thru the plastic windows. While the boat has had all the teak off, I used the PT cover to keep the rain out. The key here is to move the cover aft at least one button, i.e., forget about fastening it around the mast, maybe two back and it will cover everything up...perhaps the teak will last several years.

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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 17:30:44

The project looks good John. Perhaps when your done you can come over and show me how to do Wind Lass. Im presently in Hylabos boat yard. Hull is down to gel coat/ keel done on one side. I ache all over from sanding all the bottom paint off. Going to replace all the to hulls and depth sounder soon. Ill be barrier coating and re painting. Toying with what colors I want to go with. Blue/ Black or Red. I was very surprised at how the keel was faired in and how it was encapsulated with glass. I didn't find any smile or cracks glad of that.

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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 17:38:13

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I don't know what it's properly called, but on cruising spinnakers the tack seems to be attached to a line that runs through a block at the stem fitting and then aft to the cockpit to allow the foot of the sail to be raised above the bow pulpit. I'm still trying to figure out how to rig it.
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I've always called it a Painter (sp?) but that was only because someone else called it that and I figured he knew what he was talking about. We did something similar with a permananet length of line off of the stem fitting for the first year until we got a spinaker pole. If you look at the pic of my boat in my signatur line you can barely make out that there isn't a pole there. We are flying it just like a jib.

dw

Duane Wolff
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John Mason
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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 18:27:52

Thanks Doug. Sure, I like to help when I can. Just let me know what and when.

Duane, I'm always fascinated with nautical terminology and the history (not that I use it correctly necessarily). The only thing I've heard called a painter was the line attached to the bow of a dinghy. I have no idea of the origin of the word. Is yours a cruising or racing spinnaker?

John Mason - Ali Paroosa
1982 - FK/SR #3290

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OJ
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Response Posted - 02/20/2002 : 19:22:22

John, excellent job on the storage space. Gonna put wine racks between the openings with the bottles resting parallel to the hull? <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

Steve Madsen
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