Wow, you must really want to whoop your main competitor!

I guess that's what we do - it's just boat bucks!

Bill Coleman
Entrada, Erie PA

On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 9:46 PM Randy Stafford via CnC-List <
cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:

> Listers I am appealing to your collective wisdom on rigging and trimming
> an asymmetrical spinnaker.
>
> For Grenadine’s 50th birthday this year, I added a new furling genoa on a
> new Selden 204S furler, a retractable Selden 75 bowsprit, and an A2
> asymmetrical spinnaker on a Selden GX10 top-down furler.  I’m installing
> the latter two birthday presents on Tuesday.
>
> This is all to improve my downwind performance, and facilitate fast upwind
> / downwind sail plan changes at the marks and on the course, in my club’s
> races.
>
> I guess my specific questions are as follows, but I would appreciate any
> additional tips you old salts might offer.
>
> 1. Leading the tack line - I’m repurposing the foredeck padeye and block,
> side-deck fairleads, and cabin-side cam cleat for my former pole down line
> to run the asym tack line, which of course goes through the bowsprit
> lengthwise.  My pole down line is too short to be the asym tack line, so
> I’ve repurposed a little-used genoa sheet.  I figure if the deck hardware
> was sufficient for a symmetrical pole down line, it ought to suffice for an
> asym tack line.  Am I wrong?
>
> 2. Where to put the turning blocks for the asym sheets: same place as for
> the symmetrical, or farther forward?  For the symmetrical turning blocks I
> use snatch blocks at the stern pulpit braces.
>
> 3. What winch to lead to / where to trim from?  My main competitor leads
> his asym sheets to cabintop winches, and trims from the windward side deck
> so the trimmer can see the whole sail.
>
> 4. When and how much to ease the tack line?  By default I assume it’s
> tensioned so that the aysm’s tack is at the bowsprit and the luff is taut,
> but it can be eased - how much, and under what conditions?
>
> Thanks in advance for any wisdom you mmight share.
>
> Fun fact: the sail is black, with a logo of an M67 grenade on both sides,
> because of the etymology of my boat’s name, and because of her color scheme
> (red topsides, white deck and cabintop, black canvas.
>
> Cheers,
> Randy Stafford
> SV Grenadine
> C&C 30 MK I #79
> Ken Caryl, CO

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