I have an '88 H285 with a 150 genoa. I also have a Cruising 'chute (with sock) that I attach to a spinnaker halyard. So, with that in mind, what's the best way to rig the cruising chute, at the dock, so I don't have to go forward and physically "tie" my genoa sheets to the bottom of my genoa before hoisting/flying the chute. I can see horrendous line "nests" if I do this incorrectly! Any ideas?
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My way is. . . .
probably the wrong way. We do not have a sock. Nor do we have any control of the tack. We try the drifter in winds of 15 knots or less that are behind the beam. We have one sheet attached to the drifter in the bag. We attach the halyard to the head and the tack to a short line ahead of the pulpit. We run the sheet outside the lifelines to a block all the way aft, then forward to a winch. Since we rarely jibe with the drifter we don't need two sheets. When we do jibe the sail has to go in front of the furler so we just reroute the sheet to the other side. Obviously this is a relaxed cruising method. But if you were racing you wouldn't be using an asymmetrical anyway.
probably the wrong way. We do not have a sock. Nor do we have any control of the tack. We try the drifter in winds of 15 knots or less that are behind the beam. We have one sheet attached to the drifter in the bag. We attach the halyard to the head and the tack to a short line ahead of the pulpit. We run the sheet outside the lifelines to a block all the way aft, then forward to a winch. Since we rarely jibe with the drifter we don't need two sheets. When we do jibe the sail has to go in front of the furler so we just reroute the sheet to the other side. Obviously this is a relaxed cruising method. But if you were racing you wouldn't be using an asymmetrical anyway.
Same as Ed
All of the Cruising Spinnaker lines - halyard, sheet, and tack line - must be outside/forward of all other rigging as Ed describes. So we just wrap the genny sheets around the sail the same as if we were returning to port. By the way, if you have a smaller headsail, why not fly that with the asymetric? That way you are ready for heay weather (just drop the sock, and unroll the jib - you can drop the sail in the sock at your liesure) and our asymetric will sail as close as 60 degrees off the wind in light air. We fly a 110 with ours. The 135 doesn't come out of the bag unless we are racing. (A casual, seldom thing for us.) The 155 is a racing rule beater that is best beating into the wind in light air, but the asymetric will perform better on any reach, especially from the beam and back. I don't know about you, but when we are cruising to weather in light air, its the "iron genny" that does the work. David Lady Lillie
All of the Cruising Spinnaker lines - halyard, sheet, and tack line - must be outside/forward of all other rigging as Ed describes. So we just wrap the genny sheets around the sail the same as if we were returning to port. By the way, if you have a smaller headsail, why not fly that with the asymetric? That way you are ready for heay weather (just drop the sock, and unroll the jib - you can drop the sail in the sock at your liesure) and our asymetric will sail as close as 60 degrees off the wind in light air. We fly a 110 with ours. The 135 doesn't come out of the bag unless we are racing. (A casual, seldom thing for us.) The 155 is a racing rule beater that is best beating into the wind in light air, but the asymetric will perform better on any reach, especially from the beam and back. I don't know about you, but when we are cruising to weather in light air, its the "iron genny" that does the work. David Lady Lillie
H 27
On my last boat, a 93 H 27, I left the genoa sheets in place. I had two lines about 2 feet long attached to blocks. I cleated the lines to my aft mooring cleats and ran my spinnaker lines through these to my winches. The genoa sheets just cleated on top of the short spinnaker block lines. It worked very well. I just moved up to a 34 and the though of a spinnaker is scary stuff
On my last boat, a 93 H 27, I left the genoa sheets in place. I had two lines about 2 feet long attached to blocks. I cleated the lines to my aft mooring cleats and ran my spinnaker lines through these to my winches. The genoa sheets just cleated on top of the short spinnaker block lines. It worked very well. I just moved up to a 34 and the though of a spinnaker is scary stuff
We fly an asymmetrical on our H40
using an ATN sock. We get the genoa sheets out of the way by just pulling them down and cleating them firmly onto the bow cleats. They stay led back to the cockpit. It takes two seconds. We have to clear the foretringle because we have a masthead rig with an 'inside' spinnaker halyard (it exits inside the forestay) and have to gybe our chute through the foretriangle. It's no big deal. We do all this under way. In fact, I've flown the chute single handing. We also use a parrel bead string shackled around the furled headsail which keeps the tack located somewhat to windward and out of the mainsail shadow. With the beads the tack can ride up and down the forestay with a tack line that runs down to block at the anchor platform and then back to the cockpit. It's cool because we can tighten the luff when reaching or let it ride up when running deeper which 'balloons' the spinnaker.
using an ATN sock. We get the genoa sheets out of the way by just pulling them down and cleating them firmly onto the bow cleats. They stay led back to the cockpit. It takes two seconds. We have to clear the foretringle because we have a masthead rig with an 'inside' spinnaker halyard (it exits inside the forestay) and have to gybe our chute through the foretriangle. It's no big deal. We do all this under way. In fact, I've flown the chute single handing. We also use a parrel bead string shackled around the furled headsail which keeps the tack located somewhat to windward and out of the mainsail shadow. With the beads the tack can ride up and down the forestay with a tack line that runs down to block at the anchor platform and then back to the cockpit. It's cool because we can tighten the luff when reaching or let it ride up when running deeper which 'balloons' the spinnaker.
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