Thanks John, I will try to rig the sail the next time I am playing. Is yours a one man job? I will lay the pole out and string the adjusting line to the mast. Almost everytime I go out to the bay I have a 1/2 mile or more run back home, and wing to wing is ok, but I would like to try the spinnaker (another reason women live longer than men). Look forward to the pictures.
gilbert -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:13 PM To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: M_Boats: spinnaker pictures 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 _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
