| Rich -- I had a nylon webbing strap with D-rings at each end made up to wrap around the furled genny; I clip the tack of the spinnaker to that, then run a line from there UNDER my spare bow roller and back to a cleat (to adjust the height of the tack). The head of the spin goes to the spin halyard, and a single sheet aft through a block on a padeye on the side deck, to the primary winch. This is with a symmetrical spin that the previous owner left for me; it's pretty used up, but still enough life left to get the boat moving in light air.
Fred Street -- Minneapolis
S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^(
Yup. Seems that flying a chute single handed around here is a bit dicey, given the local sea breeze that kicks in after lunch most days. I remember some nicely burned fingers one day a few years back.
Thanks guys.
Rich Knowles
Indigo. LF38
Halifax
On 2013-02-25, at 10:56, dwight veinot <dwightvei...@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote:
Rich
I have done that with my triradial spinnaker several times...I use a tack
line outside the bow pulpit from the sail through the snap shackle on the
bow to a cleat on deck. Let the tack of the sail fly out in front about 4-5
feet from the snap shackle on that line. Works nice off the wind in light
stuff. Release the tack line before the halyard when dowsing. Cleat the
spin halyard from a cabin top winch near the base of the mast...then it's
possible to do alone in light air but it's a handful and it's a real PITA if
the wind freshens...I have only done it on a very long light air run. I
started a long light air run from Crescent Beach to Lunenburg one nice warm
August fore noon and all was fine and beautiful for several hours up along
the coast and then when approaching Cross Island the wind began to build
and move forward...what a job I had then, it might have been easier to fall
off and head to Halifax rather than try to get that thing down...but I got
it down, lots of flapping and dragging behind in the water...I worked damn
hard getting that sail down and on board alone while Rosalie held tight to
the wheel. I don't carry the spinnaker much anymore and she is very happy
for that and fortunately I have found other things that occupy the space
below decks that it took up.
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