OzOne wrote:
Just to clarify, I believe that when he talks about a running
spinnaker that is "old fashioned cross cut" he would be refering to a
radial headed x cut as it most common.

On bigger spinnakers, yes. The Lightning is 300 Sq Ft, and it's cross
cut all the way up. I think the Etchells is something like 475 (?) and
benefits from radial panels. They put radial heads on Lightning runners
for a while, back in the early 1990s or so, but decided it wasn't worth it.

BTW there is an Etchells fleet in Oriental NC and some of them went to
one of the big championships... now they're swanking it up with bow
numbers