Roller Furler and Spinnaker

[West Wing]

What a great weekend on Lake of the Woods Ontario Canada. I wish there were more sailors to share it with.I have a Doykle Asymetrical Spinnaker arriving this week and had a question on flying it with the furled jib.I will be using the jib halyard and wondered how the top of the spinnaker should be attached to the forestay and how would it travel over the furled jib?Also if it travels over the furled jib I suppose you would obviously need to furl the jib before raising the Spinnaker.So the question is does the spinnaker need to attach to the forestay if so how?I have heard of somethinbg called parrel beads or balls is this the solution I need?Thanks

 

[John Paoletti]

Asym set-up

This Web page may help. I bought an Asym earlier this year, and hope to set her up this weekend. Good luck. If you take a few pictures, post them on the Photo page.http://www.trailersailor.com/content/reviews/read.cgi?2

 

[David Foster]

Asymetrical Rigging

I recommend that you get a dedicated halyard for the spinnaker. That allows us to hoist it (in it's sock) before we furl the jib. The spinnaker attached only 3 places:The halyard takes it to the masthead.The tack line goes around the front of the forestay (we attach ours to the toerail on the side opposite the spinnaker.)The sheet runs from the clew to the stern through a block to the winch at the cockpit.The spinnaker must fly in front/outside of all other rigging. With careful attention to how the lines run, it can be rigged ready to fly with the foresail still up. (Ours is hoisted in the sock outside the jib/genny. Without the sock, it would be on the deck, ready to hoist.Then we furl the foresail, and deploy the spinnaker - and we are off. We trim the sheet to keep the luff from collapsing. Light-medium air, we tighten the tack line and halyard to help the luff go more into the wind. We can easily get 60 degrees into the wind on a close reach. With the wind coming behind the beam, we ease the luff to get the maximum height on the sail.We love our ACS. We were out Thursday evening doing 2 to 3.5 knots (per GPS) while the winds were 2.5 to 6 knots true (according to the weather bouy off Cleveland at the same time.) We find that we can ghost along in what we would have called a dead calm before. DavidLady Lillie h27

 

[Ned Christensen]

You need a collar

We use an asymmetrical on our H26 a lot. We use a tack collar made of large beads that allows the tack of the spinnaker to ride up and down the furled jib. The collar also attaches to a tack line that goes through a block on the bow, and then back to the cockpit. Ours block attaches to the bow cleat. We raise ours with the factory jib halyard, run the sheets outside of everything back to blocks on the stern corners (our blocks attach to the factory U-bolts). We jibe ours under the forestay just like you would a genoa. Using the collar and tack line, you can adjust the height of the tack - higher for higher wind angles and lower for smaller wind angles. It works very well. A collar can be made of 1/4 inch line and "wiffle" golf balls, strung tightly, like pearls, or Doyal makes a heavy collar. Both work fine.Hope this helps. Feel free to email me if I can answer any questions: gnedc@gte.net.Ned ChristensenSecond Wind