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Technical / Re: BC23 SPINNAKER ARRANGEMENT
« Last Post by Nicky R on 27 Mar 2024, 21:30 »This photo shows it, although not very well, for our non-furling spinnaker. It’s the white rope with blue flecks that you can see coming out of the spinnaker bag in the photo. (I’m not sure why it’s in the spinnaker bag - it doesn’t need to be.)
We rig the tack line on the starboard side. The tack line isn’t tricky to set up. One end ties onto the tack of the spinnaker, with a ball to stop the knot vanishing into the bowsprit. It then feeds through the bowsprit, tube over foredeck and cabin roof, through the turning block and into the clutches.
The metal you can see on the cabin roof is a stainless steel chafe guard to stop the tack line wearing away the cabin roof. Some people use a fair lead there. We have more chafe guards on the side of the cockpit where the spinnaker sheets rub.
Ignore the yellow ropes in the photo - they attach the spinnaker bag to the grab handles so we don’t loose the bag over the side!
We rig the tack line on the starboard side. The tack line isn’t tricky to set up. One end ties onto the tack of the spinnaker, with a ball to stop the knot vanishing into the bowsprit. It then feeds through the bowsprit, tube over foredeck and cabin roof, through the turning block and into the clutches.
The metal you can see on the cabin roof is a stainless steel chafe guard to stop the tack line wearing away the cabin roof. Some people use a fair lead there. We have more chafe guards on the side of the cockpit where the spinnaker sheets rub.
Ignore the yellow ropes in the photo - they attach the spinnaker bag to the grab handles so we don’t loose the bag over the side!