Also, how do you secure your spinnaker clews to the sheets?


OzOne wrote:
We use C Clips..NEW C Clips, after a couple of seasons they wear
enough to release during the set. On really big days we often run a
couple of wraps of insulating tape adound one of the pair so they
won't release.

Ah so... who makes them? I'd love to get something that was light and
smooth enough to pass easily around the stays.

We put the sheet through the clew eye, or use a turn around & through
the clew eye, and tie a stopper knot where it will be on the inside. But
it still hangs up a discouragingly large percent of the time.


Yep, trap.
The hull was very flat bottomed and only 12' but had a 3' bowsprit so
carried a lot of sail for its size.
Originally had a single ended spinnaker pole that was kickered down to
the bowsprit and a wire luffed spinnaker.

A wire luff spinnaker!?! Dang that sounds like these things really got
loaded up.


I won an Aust Champ in them and a couple of 3rds but after they'd gone
to a double ended pole and conventional but still very flat spinaker,
and looked like the pic above. That was the days of triangular courses
and screaming shy runs.

Does everyone there run W/L nowadays? That's most common here. I love
tight reaches, we alway do well on a course like that. Other sailors
like to complain that they're not "tactical" but I think it's just an
old fashioned mind set. You can pass a boat on any course, and where one
boat can pass, another has to defend... sounds tactical to me!

Fresh Breezes- Doug King