Gil,
It's hard to get a good pic of your boat under a spinnaker from on the boat,
and I never did take pics of all the details. If you look close at the pic
you'll see that the pole is suspended from a wire harnes which is attached
to the spinnaker topping lift that goes out of the pic but leads to a block on
the mast. There is also a wire harness that you can see just uner the lower
pannel of the spinnaker. There is a line (spinnaker downhall) from the
center ring of the harness that leads to the right (in the picture) and runs
thru
a block on the deck and back to a cleat. These lines give support to the
pole and help control its height. There is just a ring on the mast that one
end
of the spinnaker pole fits, so height adjustment for the pole is limited. As
far as angle of the pole to the mast is concerned, the ideal position occurs
when the pole and the boom are inline or close to it.
There are two sheets attached to the spinnaker, the windward one is visible
in the pic and heads off the pic to the left. You can't see the right -
leeward - sheet but it leads to a block situated on a track at the very aft end
of the boat, from there it leads up to the leeward winch.
Hope this helps but let me know if you have any questions. The next time I
fly the spinnaker I'll take some more pics that will show the arrangement in
more detail.
John Edwards
"Miss T"
M17 # 372
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