If you are planning on using a pole to stretch the genoa, then you are right. But….. in our PHRF area, you cannot use a pole longer than the J measurement (which is the length of almost all spinnaker poles) without penalty, even on a genoa.
I bought a whisker pole to use on the genoa, but with that (racing) restriction, it was not useful at all. For cruising, it would be. Sold the pole. And, what we’ve been talking about is using the spinnaker pole with an asymmetrical chute – we are talking about using it at the TACK, not the clew, to allow the chute to be flexible – at the forestay for reaching, but able to be moved backward to project the chute out to windward and be used for downwind sailing. Not as good as a full bodied symmetrical chute for downwind, but better than having to gybe downwind. When we raced a J-24 with a regular chute, we did gybe downwind, as we found the boat was faster at about 140-150 degrees off the wind than dead downwind – enough to make up for the extra distance traveled (and we were able to keep the chute full during the gybes). On my 30-1, the opposite is true, because of a masthead chute with big high shoulders, vs. the fractional chute on the 24. Gary From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Ronald B. Frerker via CnC-List Sent: Friday, June 24, 2016 3:33 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Ronald B. Frerker <rbfrer...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List Assymetrical spinnaker pole "If you are considering leaving the asymm tack on centerline and using a pole like you would use a whisker pole on a headsail I guess that would work but as pointed out is not legal under common Racing Rules of Sailing." I've found the spin pole is too short for use as a whisker pole even when poling out a genny (150%). For a chute which is about 180% the clew will be in way too far to pull well I would think. Ron Wild Cheri C&C 30-1 STL
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