rigging my "gennaker"

[Justin_NSA]

I've not rigged this sail yet so I wanted to check with you all. The clew has 2 lines secured to it. I think I should attach them to the 2 cleats up front. My only other option is the bail on the bow roller, but that puts the sail in front of the furler and that can't be right. Are 2 lines a good idea? How can you be sure they get tied evenly? Maybe run the ends thru the holes in the cleats and tie the ends together? That should do it. I have 2 blocks on the toe rail near the winches for the sheets. I only have a stowage bag for the sail. Nothing I can secure on the bow to have it ready to deploy.
We don't get many easy breeze days but I want to fly this sail some day. What's the max wind to fly this in? I don't want to tear it up.
Note: I love the composite material (see bow seat) a PO replaced the external teak with. Zero maintenance.

 

[Jake N Eggs]

Tack goes outside the furler so that you can gybe the sail. Here is a link for North Sails Gennaker instructions that may help.

Good luck.

 

[DougM]

The clew goes aft the tack goes to the bow, preferably forward of the pulpit. The two lines attached to the clew are the port and starboard sheets. They should be run through blocks as far aft as possible then forward to the sheet winches. You will have to play with the setup a bit at first, preferably in a steady light breeze.
The line shown in your photo probably belongs on the tack, but appears to be shackled to the clew. You will need some really long sheets to allow tacking the sail around the forestay. For safety's sake by all means don't use a shackle to attach the sheets. You don't want to get kissed by a flogging sail with that shackle attached.

 

[Jackdaw]

That's not an asym or a gennaker, it is a light wind drifter. It is flown unstayed on the spin halyard. If you didn't have a furler the sail would be stayed and run up your jib halyard on very light days. The cloth and attach points are very lightly constructed. 0-4 knots of breeze probably.

It is almost never jibed, its normally tacked. You want to sail it with the apparent wind direction AHEAD of the beam to keep the apparent wind speed up. While you could try and mount it in front of your roller, I think a tack point just aft of your drum would work. With your setup there is no really good solution. Mount a D-ring there and tack it off.

 

[Justin_NSA]

D'oh! The lines in the pic are attached to the tack. The clew has long sheets attached. It seems that running it thru the cleats to tack it off might work but I should probably install a padeye behind the furler and tack it there.
I called it a "gennaker" but I'm still confused. Other threads here say a drifter hanks onto the forestay. It fits the description of a gennaker as far as attachment goes, but it looks more like an upwind or beam reach sail rather than downwind.