Show us your spinnaker

[jssailem]

Finally my spinnaker arrived for Hadley.
Here she is. Expecting to put her to good use the rest of this years sailing season.

Also found a picture of the spinnaker on a sprit I designed for my former boat. A Montgomery 15.

She was a great trailer boat. We enjoyed many of the bays, lakes and rivers here in the Pacific NW.

 

[Hayden Watson]

Finally my spinnaker arrived for Hadley.
Here she is. Expecting to put her to good use the rest of this years sailing season.

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Also found a picture of the spinnaker on a sprit I designed for my former boat. A Montgomery 15.
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She was a great trailer boat. We enjoyed many of the bays, lakes and rivers here in the Pacific NW.

Does this mean that Hadley has been outside the marina?!?!?

 

[jssailem]

Only briefly to go from the North to the South Marina. But expecting soon...

 

[Hayden Watson]

I am hopefully heading your way in a couple of days if you are out and about.

 

[jssailem]

Not up to Everett til about the 18/19th.

 

[Rodsails]

I fly em any time I get a chance then i entertain the crew and State Park visitors with a sail down the channel doing 8 knots.

 

[Garester]

Mine isn't as impressive as most of the ones above, although considering these were my first tries using it with zero experience or training.

 

[PaulK]

Not us, but got this picture after the Wednesday night race last week. J/109 Mistral is sailing in and has to do a U-turn to get to her mooring at the head of the second line of moored boats. (Out of the picture frame.) Having to pick up both bow and stern mooring lines allows observers on the upper deck of the clubhouse to provide commentary and pithy critique of boat handling.

 

[Hayden Watson]

I have posted my favorite picture before on this thread but what the heck! I still think it is the prettiest sail I have ever seen from Papillon's deck.
RYI, my wife made this sail for my birthday about 12-years ago and it still looks this good.

 

[PaulK]

I have posted my favorite picture before on this thread but what the heck! I still think it is the prettiest sail I have ever seen from Papillon's deck.
RYI, my wife made this sail for my birthday about 12-years ago and it still looks this good.
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It does look really good. You only fly it on your birthdays?

 

[Hayden Watson]

It does look really good. You only fly it on your birthdays?

Oh certainly not. I fly it every time I get a chance. I am leaving for a 2-week solo cruise on Wednesday and each days destination will be desided when I raise the anchor based on the wind. My preference will be to keep the wind between 90º and 180º When cruising, I often raise only the spinnaker and leave the main on the boom so that I can also enjoy the beauty.

 

[jon hansen]

 

[Rodsails]

I love entertaining the beach watchers and shooting down the channel

at 8 knots. But sometimes the crew gets excited

 

[robbjd]

Thanks for starting this thread! Reminded me to call our local sail maker to see if our asym is repaired!

 

[jon hansen]

 

[Hello Below]

We flew this new to us re-cut gennaker for the first time ever today. Originally built for a 350 IPY and generously gifted to us by a very good friend who no longer needed it. North West Sails (Vancouver) did an excellent job in the pattern match.The crew seemed happy that we didn’t die today as she thought we would. So I assume there will be another hoisting when the opportunity arises.

 

[stickinthemud57]

So many beautiful photos!

What it would look like if I had one...

 

[Andrew of Oracle]

This is the Spinnaker I have designed and fitted to Oracle it is 90 square meters of fun and adventure ! That is me up the mast with a router and 3D printed clamp on template to cut apertures in the mast for the halyard and pole up haul , it is asymmetric but we have a whisper pole that we use on the kite as well as the jib, last week I added a top down furler with any luck next week we can run up the gulf and take some photos to share

 

[Andrew of Oracle]