I got out in the mild conditions yesterday on my new to me boat and tried singlehandling the asymmetrical spinnaker.
I am having difficulties figuring out how to rig the tack line.
My previous boat was a fractional rig so I installed the spinnaker hounds two feet above the forestay then I installed a retractable bowsprit. It was a smaller boat so I could gybe it outside the forestay quite easily.
On this boat the previous owner had the symmetrical recut at a sail loft to be used as an asymmetrical but he can't remember how he had the tack rigged. Bless his heart, he used to race the boat over a decade ago but he hadn't sailed the boat for sevearal years prior to me purchasing it. It was painful for me to watch him try as hard as he could to remember the nuances of the boat as I was on the test sail with him as his memory is fading, so I didn't press too hard. He did have the parrel beads in the sail bag, but when I tried it, the tack would just wrap around the furled headsail every other gybe.
As you could see towards the end of the video, I couldn't adjust the tack line the way it was rigged because it would hang up on the navigation light.
Here is a close up without the beads
Is there some way to rig this for temporary use prior to getting a bowsprit installed?
My previous boat was a fractional rig so I installed the spinnaker hounds two feet above the forestay then I installed a retractable bowsprit. It was a smaller boat so I could gybe it outside the forestay quite easily.
On this boat the previous owner had the symmetrical recut at a sail loft to be used as an asymmetrical but he can't remember how he had the tack rigged. Bless his heart, he used to race the boat over a decade ago but he hadn't sailed the boat for sevearal years prior to me purchasing it. It was painful for me to watch him try as hard as he could to remember the nuances of the boat as I was on the test sail with him as his memory is fading, so I didn't press too hard. He did have the parrel beads in the sail bag, but when I tried it, the tack would just wrap around the furled headsail every other gybe.
As you could see towards the end of the video, I couldn't adjust the tack line the way it was rigged because it would hang up on the navigation light.
Here is a close up without the beads
Is there some way to rig this for temporary use prior to getting a bowsprit installed?