Test hoist of the new spinnaker-IT FITS!

[oliversdad]

I found this asymmetrical spinnaker on Ebay.I guess I felt the need to complicate things on my little boat...
The sail was built for a SanJuan21 but from the looks of it,never used.The fit seems very nice,[what a relief].The luff was plus 3" of my boats "I" measurement.Still need to install necessary blocks and rigging but at least I found everything on Ebay and the UPS man comes daily.
I will post pictures of rigging as I progress.I have a good Idea of necessary hardware and location points but any Thoughts or tips would be greatly appreciated.
I am also adding a roller furler for the jib but the stemhead fitting is too small.After a lot of head scratching to figure how to mount the drum,I thought I would remove the stemhead fitting and have it modified by a marine fabricator friend.Well once I removed the darned thing[not an easy task],I realized I could simply ad a deck eye aft of the stemhead fitting.Brilliant!Well after a lot of work for nothing the stemhead is back in place and the deck eye is mounted w/backing plate.

 

[Brian S]

Funny, I recently had a discussion with a guy at Neil Pryde sails regarding my 192 "spanker" asym. (I forget why I called him. Oh, I remember, I wanted to ask if they knew any specs for mast rake, because they were OEM sail suppliers to O'day. But I digress...) Anyway, we got to talking about the asym, and he said they typically cut the luff of an asym to be 95% of the hoist length. So, I hoisted my surveyor's tape with the spin halyard, and got 25'. 95% of 25' is just over 23'. And then we measured the luff of the asym, and it was maybe 20 or 21 feet long. Dang it, I forget the exact number, the Admiral would remember. All I remember is that I now know I have plenty of room to mount the tack line to a bullseye fairlead mounted on the bow pulpit rail, which gets the tack out in front of the forestay, which might allow a slightly deeper angle to the wind, and might allow me to gybe inside, between luff and forestay, as opposed to outside the luff.

My chute is red, yellow, and white. I find it to be kinda ugly, but the Admiral likes it. I personally think it would be great looking if the white panels were orange - a red, orange, and yellow sail is rainbow-order appropriate. The red white and blue of your spin always looks good

Brian

 

[oliversdad]

Thanks Brian,
Today I mounted the mast tang for the spin halyard.Also fitted the roller furling jib setup.Tomorrow will swage up the cable for furling unit.Also will mount sheet blocks for the spinnaker.It all takes time...Hope to splash soon!