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
