"Thom Stewart" wrote in message
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JG,
If you don't have the spinnaker in a sausage or a turtle the area under
the main hatch gives the crew more room to work, like laying it out and
room to let it run. It easier than working on the V-berth.

Donal
If you get your crew to pack the Spinn In a bag properly; with the three
corner on top and clearly marked, you can hook the tack, halyard and
sheet and hoist it right out of the bag on the fore deck.

That is the way that we do it.

A Spinn. Bag
usually has a strap on the bottom to clip it in place to let sail hoist
clean and the Bag stays in place,

Again, that is the system that we use. The bag has three clips that hook
onto the guardwires(lifelines?).



There is also a thing called a turtle which holds that folded Spinn with
the three corners exposed. You just snap open the top and hoist away,

Our Spinaker bag does leave the three corners exposed, but I'm not sure if
it is a "turtle". I'm going to do a Google search to find out.



When you're cruising it really doesn't make that much difference is the
head is without a sail for awhile. You can take your time. When you do,
you will find ita rather easy sail to fly.

I usually only fly it when I've got experienced crew aboard. I've only
flown it once with the family aboard - and that was in 12 kts. My boat is
quite light, and she becomes very lively when the spinaker is up.


Regards


Donal
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