Asymmetrical Spinnaker

[SailSmith]

I have gotten hold of an Asymmetrical Spinnaker off of a tall/fin Catalina 22 and tried it out the other day on my Fractional/Wing Capri 22. Without doing to much research does anyone know off hand what the difference in luff lengths would be? I have what I assume is a Jib Halyard coming out just above where my roller furler is and that is what I ran the spinnaker up with. If I wanted to do this proper shouldn't I get a halyard exiting the top of the mast? Any ways, the thing seemed to fly pretty well and in about 14kts I was making a little more that 8 Kts but I had about a knot of current pushing me also. Any tips on flying these off of a Capri and what do you guys think I should do about the halyard? Thanks

Kyle

 

[shnool]

Sounds like the spin halyard to me.. it exits just above the attachment point of the forestay.
Left to right... bottom is genoa halyard, middle is forestay t-bar, right is spin halyard.

 

[bigpapaporsche]

The previous post was correct, regarding where to attach the Spin Halyard.
My recommendations based on my limited experience with an Asymmetrical Spin is to use an "ATN Sock" around the Furler assy, assuming you use one. Also, the use of a Turtle Bag to launch the sail from, mounted on the Bow, is helpful in controlling the sail while its on the deck and also is a place to store the sail. I use Tack Line, attached to the Sock which permits/controls the height of the Aspin and is routed back to the cockpit. I use one 1/4 Sheet, divided into two equal lengths, attached by a Cow Knot to a Snap Shackle and the Clew of the sail. These are routed outside the stanchions back to the cockpit. With a little practice you can use the Aspin by yourself fairly easily. I am planning on using both an Aspin/Std Spin on new to us Capri 22. My first objective is to find a method that can use the same sheet on both sails. IMHO, sailing down wind is the best!