I want to share with you two important improvements on my boat. We lifted up the roller furling drum above deck. It works much better then the original version did and we can use the locker for canvas day-storing. It happened on some occasions, that going out on a 40-50 nm daytrip in a good 12-18 kts wind but by the time wanted to go back, the wind dropped to 3-4 kts or less. And I hate using the diesel-sales as I can have the noise and smell in town any time, even when I do not want it. I do not go sailing for that. I do use a symmetrical spi with the factory installed spinnaker system but I wanted to have a bigger kyte. So I decided to add a new spinnaker fix position 200 cm (6.5 ft) above the existing point right above the headsail. We tried last saturday with a 84 sqm (904 sqft) Lee Sails asymmetric spi at 6-12 kts true wind speeds. It is an all purpoise starcut cruising spi what I recently purchased from somebody. We were going up as high as 60 apparent wind angle. The boat was makin 6-6.5 kts by gps. It worked beautifully and I did not detect any significant mast bend to be alarmed with. The only problem was that we used the wrong type of rope and the spi fall was streching. As you can see on the picture, the 28 m rope streched 0.3-0.4 m. So next time we shall have the proper rope. As the maximum luff length is 15.5 m (50 ft) using the present tack point, there is more room and I am planning to borrow a 100 sqm light air spi and try it under proper conditions. Have a good sailing.
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