All tangled up

[Warren Updike]

I bought a Doyle cruising spinnaker used. It's in geat shape, and I've even got it up a few times; but, I feel like Keystone Kops getting it there. I've tried rigging it while the jib is up to save time on the switch, but I always seem to get one or both sheets run incorrectly. What's the best approach? Is there a cookbook solution available? Also, gybing a CS seems an art in itself. Any help here?

 

[Bruce Mulford]

I solved one piece of the puzzle by...

....putting snap shackles on both sheets so that I can leave them run on the boat. I snap the two sheets onto the bow pulpit when not in use, tie them off at the stern pulpit and drape them over the lifelines enough to keep them out of the water. That way they are already run outside of everything as they need to be. I just snap them to the sail as it is raised. As to gybing, I have both sheets long enough that the lazy one comes around to the working side so you can pull it around, but try to get the sail to blow way out in front before doing so.

 

[Larry Watkins]

Cruising chute

Warren; I like to contain the chute with a snuffer before gybing, and for raising it, too. Raise the sail and then the snuffer in the lee of the main, then come up to the wind, let the chute fill and settle on course.

 

[Mark Ploch]

Kiss

Whats the rush. Keep It simple, you are not racing and probably only have 2 hands. Roll the jib up and get it out of the way, sounds like it may be faster. Same with gibing, douse the sock and walk the sheet around and then reset. It is much easier and saves running over a sheet. As you use the sail more it gets easier. We have some instructions on our web page but I think you have the right idea just need to do it a few more times. mark