"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
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Donal,

I believe you are talking about a full spinnaker with tack and sheets
and spinnaker pole

Yes, I was. All the photos on the site that Scotty posted a link to show a
spinnaker pole.


We are discussing a different breed here. the tack stays attached and
the clew is tacked, rather like a Jenny. It isn't a tack it is a Gybe
but only the clew comes across. Because it is downwind I run two sheets
to the clew. The working sheet I run around my stern docking Cleat and
back up to the sheet winch. The Lazy sheet I run outside the lee side of
the sail, forward of the forestay and outside of everything. Pulpit,
shrouds, lifelines and back to the other stern docking cleat (Nothing
on them while sailing)

That sounds like a "cruising chute".


Donal, when I Gybe no one leaves the cockpit, I head downwind but not
enough to gybe the main. Let go the working sheet, letting the spinning
fly forward of the stay, sail slightly windward (Actually to sail inside
the spinnaker, pull the lazy sheet and sail into the shadow of the main
and set the sheet. Then I gybe the main by sailing thru the wind,
filling the spinnaker and continuing the main gybe .

No one one the foredeck. With the Auto Pilot its a one man operation.

I think that we have our usual transAtlantic communication problem here(Same
words - different meanings). It looks like we would both offer the same
advice to Scotty.









Regards


Donal
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