Cruising chute

[BigLes]

Well I've picked up a used (hardly) cruising chute for my Jaguar 25. How does it fly? I've used a spinnaker on a friend's boat, but this flies free at the foot.

No problem with the attachment of the chute and snuffer to the halyard. But confusion with the tack and clew. The chute just has rope loops on each. So - does the tack attach directly to the stemhead/bowroller fitting or does it fly free like the clew (attached to a suitable sheet of course).

Any guidance would be welcomed.

Les

 

[Guest]

You will find that one side is considerably longer than the other. The long side is the leading edge and tacks down to the stemhead. For the tack line use a length of rope with snapchackes to suit.

Alternatively, set the thing off the spinnaker pole, it will be much more efficent at wider wind angles. You will need to keep the pole just skimming over the top of the pulpit. You will need a beefed up downhaul attached to the sail instead of the tack line. Also don't forget to lead the sheets round the outside of the sail otherwise you will never be able to gybe the thing.

Experiment and have fun!

 

[BigLes]

Mike

That helps out a great deal.

Many thanks

Les

 

[quaelgeist2]

CS is pretty versatile therefore I fly mine differently depending on force and direction of wind (25ft boat, 33 sqm CS):

As a light genoa (halfwinder as they Dutch say) attached to the stemhead, inside the forestay in order to tack it like a genoa, sheets as for genoa

As recommended by the sailmaker, i.e. attached to the rolled up genoa ring from a wire+plastic rollers, it can slide up and down, adjusted with a downhaul from the cockpit, ideally flying between 1 and 2 m above deck, sheets go to the clew like for a genoa

For performance I fly it also from a spinnaker pole, like any other spi, but it is more tricky to gybe then as the CS has to come round completely, sheeting as for a spi

chris