Chutes, Spinnakers and night sailing

[TiggerToo]

This is a post-merger (is there are term for this? - like Lakesailoring?): bringing together the sailing-at-night-without-lifejacket-photo on the YM front cover and my question about spinnaker names.

I noticed last night that the spinnaker on the YM front cover seems to be the wrong way round: port hand on the starboard side. Could it be that the photo was inverted?

Any comments there at YM?

Great photo by the way: the black background (enhanced by clever photography) really does make the image a little different from the blue-enhanced covers that we tend to see on YM. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[waterboy]

Nah. There would be a red light on the starboard side if the photo had been reversed. Hold it in front of a mirror to see my point.

 

[jb2006]

I think the red light IS on the starboard side - the much dimmer green looks yellow and faces towards us

 

[jb2006]

Or maybe the yellow light is red and the white is green ?

 

[bbg]

I haven't seen the photo - but I never bothered about making sure the spinnaker was the "right way round". "Right way up" is important, but I never really cared if I attached the green clew to the port or starboard sheets.