[MHml] Rigging an asymmetric spinnaker

[Gary Pearce]

On Sunday 03 September 2006 01:02, Peter Lillywhite wrote:
> As an alternative I propose to rig an adjustable tack strop from the
> spin tack on to a block carried by the existing spinnaker guys that run
> through blocks at each bow. This would enable the tack to be moved up to
> windward for sailing deep and to leeward for reaching.

We did something similar on our Prout Event 34 and it worked well. 

We secured a line between the two bows. The outermost sections of this line 
were in fact a becketed block. A block ran athwartships on this line, 
controlled by lines running through the becketed block back to the cockpit. A 
short strop from the block to the tack of the asym ended in a sister clip (G 
clip) .

We did not need to gybe "outside" but we had a couple of feet between jib luff 
and spi tack.

Ours was doused in a sock.

Worked well for us on a slow stable platform.

Gary