Show us your spinnaker!

[Swallow]

Show us your spinnaker

The boat's name is Swallow from Arthur Ransome's "Swallows and Amazons". When a new asymmetrical spinnaker was on the list Kevin, the sailmaker and a Ransome reader too was only too happy to cut the stylized swallow into the sail. This shot was taken one July day when I was singlehanding, eastbound on Lake Ontario.

 

[tommays]

 

[Chief RA]

Thanks guys! They are beautiful! Had a solid red 175% Drifter on my prior boat. The sails name was "the red baron".
Chief

 

[Jackdaw]

Took me a while, but I found it! ...OEM, not nearly as cool as Jackdaw's

I like!

 

[Freedom77]

Bought Freedom in '76. Bicentennial year. Everyone was going red, white and blue. We decided not to. In So Cal you could tell whose boat you were in front of ,or behind (nah), by the chute.

 

[Scotty C-M]

OK, quick story. About 30 years ago I got a ride on a fancy racer named "Clark Kent". On the downwind leg, the crew started smiling and set up the spinnaker. It had a HUGE graphic (very rare at that time) of Clark jumping into the air, taking off the glasses and opening up his shirt to show the SUPER MAN uniform. It was sooo cool as we sped past the fleet. (Does anyone know about that boat?)

 

[pcjrusso]

Here's our spinnaker flown as a gennaker

 

[rpwillia]

Leukemia Cup and the Spinnaker

You guys have prettier ones (that Pelican one is da bomb!) but I like mine as well.

 

[SenecaDaze]

not flown yet, have to go up the mast next year and add a mast hound ,halyard and all but hey here it is.

 

[Philip_Oceanis 361]

Here's mine.

 

[jackhartjr]

I was approaching the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, (Tampa, St Pete) about a yea ago and there were more than a dozen 30' to 50' footers going out to sea, ALL had Spinnakers flying, a sight to behold!
Jack

 

[TomY]

Our spinnakers are hard to photograph as my hands are usually full when they're flying. I got this shot years ago with a point and shoot by "feel" with my right hand while holding the wheel in my left. We were reaching up Blue Hill(dead ahead background) Bay on a hot westerly driven beam reach.

 

[Don Crowther]

Not much of a view but here's ours flying early this year.

 

[Caboteur]

Just love to fly a spinnaker... especially if I'm singlehanding; it adds to the fun. I usually sail with my wife and I try to convince her that the spinnaker is our friend: I'm not very successful at it!
"Le Spi c'est mon ami"
Pierre

 

[sailingseadragon]

Sea Dragon's

 

[sailhard]

Spinny!

Found this little gem on craigslist. Makes light air sailing fun!

 

[John T1594]

1980 H30

Flying the sail on our previous boat.

 

[shnool]

What no wittle boats?

here you go, our 30+ yo spinnaker... used frequently now... patches and all

and

This was during one of my "solo launches" on a very light day.

 

[Hayden Watson]

This is the Star of Papillon. My wife made it for my birthday several years ago. It has been a great addition to the boat and gets used almost every time we sail.

 

[shnool]

For the record, my boat is a downwind rocket... and the windward leg it can hold its own. My boat is a puddle racing Capri 25. The masthead rig, allows for a HUGE symmetrical kite! It's why we can kill the J/24s, and S2 7.9s downwind.

I'm in the process of ordering a "reaching kite" as the one above is a DDW chute for those who do Windward/Leeward races (we don't)... While the downwind chute is a great runner.. we need something when our race committee sets us up for a "reach-fest." Because we lose when it's a waterline race. It's he who spends most of his time above hull-speed who wins when that happens. Can't wait to get the new chute and try it out.