Well, believe it or not, here I am again, responding to Wilbur (who,
despite the many sling-wielders does, occasionally, contribute more
than even my bandwidth [which I recognize to be immense], providing
the momentary benefits of tidbits).

O great teacher, I have a follow-on question...

Duh! When making the sheets fast leave a bit of a bight in the knot.
Fit the spinnaker pole clip to the bight in the sheet. Size the
bight so it fits snugly and there will be little or no chafe.

I use a continuous sheet. I secure it to the clew using a figure 8
knot. The bight I use is the looped end of the figure 8.


We use a continuous sheet as well, and every so often undo it and move
it around to help spread the wear load. However, that was before the
chafe of the subject post...

Ours isn't a figure 8, and even if it were, I'm not getting the
picture on a loop, not running tight as the sheets are used. I don't
know that we'd use that modus; a primary reason for the original post
had to do with the ability to reef the genny, or even stow it, without
having to deal with the pole, should conditions get snotty enough to
make you wish you weren't on deck.

As to a workaround using a short piece of line mentioned elsewhere,
that's exactly how I overcame the broken bail on the pole; we could
easily do the same with the clew, if we were willing to give up the
reefing convenience.

Yesterday was nearly an all-day spinnaker run (from Martha's Vineyard
to Block Island), but we only have an asym. We did, in fact, jibe it,
as you'll see on the SPOT page should you care to look at it.
Eventually we became overpowered and put it down in favor of the
genny, making it just before dark. Started in the forecast 10-15 NE,
full sails, then died so put up the asym wing and wing; ghosted along,
making me think we weren't going to get there before dark, but
eventually the wind picked up enough that I struck the main and we
did, in fact, make it anchor-down just before dark.

More later on that in my next log post, prolly following Labor day...

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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
anews.com...

"Skip Gundlach" wrote in message
...
Well, not a joke...

We like using our spinnaker pole (we don't have a whisker pole) to
hold our genoa out in dead-downwind or there-abouts situations. We
can rig it so we can furl the genny if needed, by putting the sheet
through the jaw, and of course can also release it readily. We
have a topping lift for the pole and fore and after guys. As we
always use it that way, we're able to "set it and forget it" by
markings on the guys, placing it in the same position each time.
The pole rides on a mast track on the other end.

However, in really rolly stuff, the sail moves around enough that
the sheets also move in the jaw, leading to chafe.

So, a couple of questions...

Given a spin pole rather than a whisker, and the need, perhaps, to
furl the genny quickly (and the jaw not being big enough to attach
to the clew), is there a better way to rig?

Secondly, for those advocating this modus, how do you avoid chafing
the sheets?


I hope this helps.

Wilbur Hubbard.