On my boat I have the foreguy (downhaul) attached to the end of the pole,
and run it to a padeye just aft of the forestay. Rob is right about not
being able to pull the pole forward with the lazy guy. If you trip the
pole while going DDW, you can fly the spinnaker with both sheets while
pulling t
Regards,
Mark Woehnker
On Fri, Jun 8, 2018, 2:37 PM Matt Knighton via CnC-List <
cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Getting new running rigging on a recently purchased C&C 36.
>
> What does the brain trust recommend for gybing: dip pole or end-to-end?
>
> I.e. Can get away with only li
I've been doing dip pole gybes for years. On my present boat and on the
Ericson 30 I had before this one. (That's almost forty-five years.) I use
separate sheets and guys. Once you get your crew trained to do dip pose
gybes, you'll be happy with how fast, and safe they are.
Alan Bergen
35 Mk II
Hi Matt
Our former 36 was rigged for dip pole. Comment from last owner of the boat
" yes it is dip pole for 2 reasons10 the pole is too heavy to end for end and
2) the length is too much for end to end because the spinnaker size would make
it nearly impossible to push it all the way out in an
I. too, am a recovering foredeck guy. Bob is right. The steersman is the
key. It's important that the steersman, and the entire crew, thinking of
gybing as "turning the boat under the chute". The chute simply flies it's
way down the course while the boat zig zags under it.
it's a subtle but si
Hi Matt
Our boat is a masthead 33 footer (almost identical to 33-2 sail plan). We do
end for end with just one set of sheets. In any breeze it takes two good sized
crew to manhandle the pole during a gybe. Our friends 33-2 is rigged for dip
pole (spin pole has different ends so can only do t
