[C38] Symetrical Spinnakers
Donald Strong
drstrong at ucdavis.edu
Tue Jul 31 11:24:31 EDT 2012
Jay: I feel for you man. We have had lots of spinny drama. We always roller furl the jib when flying
spinnaker. The rest of your questions are beyond my experience.
Don
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> Hello All,
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>
>
> We flew our 0.75 oz spinnaker for the first time yesterday during a
> family sail and have a couple of questions for the group.
>
>
>
> 1. During the douse the spin halyard got stuck and
> appeared to be caught on the roller furling gear near the masthead. Is
> this common? Also, is it normal to roller furl the jib when using a
> symmetrical chute or do you really need to drop it on deck? I race on a
> Serendipity 43 and Swan 51 with a deck sweeper jibs that are dropped
> when flying a chute, and on a J-105 that rolls the jib while flying an
> asymmetrical, so having a roller furler and a symmetrical chute is new
> to us.
>
> 2. While working to get the chute down we added a few
> new tears to the many that were there previously so was going to put out
> a call to anyone who might have a used symmetrical spinnaker(s)
> (0.5-0.75oz) laying around that they are not using. Will pay a
> reasonable price plus shipping!
>
> 3. And lastly, does anyone who uses very light
> spinnaker sheets in light air have a preference for light weight
> shackles. The plastic Lewmar ones we use on the Serendipity tend to
> open up under load and I thought one of you may have a preferable
> option?? Or maybe we'll just tie on light line!
>
>
>
> Thanks much!
>
>
>
> Jay & Dorothy Sorensen
>
> C-38 #311 Broad Reach
>
> San Diego, CA
>
>
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> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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> font-family:Arial'>We flew our 0.75 oz spinnaker for the first time
> yesterday
> during a family sail and have a couple of questions for the
> group.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
>
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> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>During the douse the spin
> halyard
> got stuck and appeared to be caught on the roller furling gear near the
> masthead. Is this common? Also, is it normal to roller furl
> the jib
> when using a symmetrical chute or do you really need to drop it on deck?
> I
> race on a Serendipity 43 and Swan 51 with a deck sweeper jibs that are
> dropped
> when flying a chute, and on a J-105 that rolls the jib while flying an
> asymmetrical, so having a roller furler and a symmetrical chute is new to
> us.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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> size=2 face=Arial><span
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>While working to get the chute
> down
> we added a few new tears to the many that were there previously so was
> going to
> put out a call to anyone who might have a used symmetrical spinnaker(s)
> (0.5-0.75oz) laying around that they are not using. Will pay a
> reasonable
> price plus shipping!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
>
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> size=2 face=Arial><span
> style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>And lastly, does anyone who
> uses
> very light spinnaker sheets in light air have a preference for light
> weight
> shackles. The plastic Lewmar ones we use on the Serendipity tend to
> open
> up under load and I thought one of you may have a preferable
> option?? Or
> maybe we’ll just tie on light
> line!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
>
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> much!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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> Sorensen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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> Reach<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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