Quick Release Shackles for Assymetric?

[thinwater]

You can gybe the sail in front if you lead the sheets in front of the sail rather than just in front of the forestay/furled genoa. The lazy sheet then runs round the leeward side of the sail instead of in the gap. I have my sail on a furler but I don't think that makes any difference.

Bingo.

Inside jibes are for VERY light air with foredeck crew to pull it through, and boats that are fast enough to tack down wind (planing of fast multi). Outside, you just flat it forward, but not so lazy that you drop the sheets under the bow or wrap the forestay.

 

[langstonelayabout]

Bingo.

Inside jibes are for VERY light air with foredeck crew to pull it through, and boats that are fast enough to tack down wind (planing of fast multi). Outside, you just flat it forward, but not so lazy that you drop the sheets under the bow or wrap the forestay.

I've never had a problem 'inside gybing' in either cruisers or dinghies.

The sheet has always gone around the forestay no problem and only catches if you have too much of a knot between sheets and the clew of the spinnaker. This is with the tack (1) made fast to the anchor roller or (2) to a long or short pole.

I might suggest that the one thing that is needed is better technique and practice in light and heavier airs; as you bear away towards the gybe ease the sheet right out so when your asymmetric collapses and your stern passes through the eye of the wind, both your sheets are eased and your new sheet isn't pulling the clew tight across the forestay on the way past.

This should help a bit. Oh, and get some brave pills as the faster you are going, the easier it is on your boat. (dinghies especially do this best at the very edge of control on a windy day: it also makes the gybing of the main that much easier too)

 

[BelleSerene]

Beware copying a 32-footer: your 37-footer is a much wilder beast.

Tack line aft to cockpit winch: control of this is important to tame the sail, particularly as you come up on the wind, and to ease it when far downwind so the luff comes round to windward. I leave a low-friction ring on a soft shackle (I make them), on a steel shackle through a hole in the bow roller in order to avoid the line getting nipped in the axle.

Beware the Wichard etc snap shackles: I had one undo itself from the tack of our chute, and losing control of the tack is nasty and dangerous whether the sail goes skywards or seawards. I now put a bowline around the tack. Always check that the clutch and/or winch are on before unfurling the sail.

Then the contentious stuff. Gybe outside everything: one wrap in twenty is one wrap too many. And snuff, snuff, snuff – life’s too short not to.

 

[lw395]

Gybing the kite is not that hard, but two-up on a decent coastal passage, we find snuffing the kite to gybe quite handy. Cross on the chart, kettle on, that kind of thing.
Experiment in small steps!
I'm agnostic about snuffers. In my view the best thing about them is preventing the kite filling while it's half up. That can be enough to put people right off kites.
Cruising chutes vary a lot, be prepared to experiment with the tack line.
Also, sailing well with a chute is very different from being blown along with white sails.
On our boat, there is a lot to be gained by working the helm and sheet together, heading up to build some speed then bearing off to sail as low as possible before losing too much speed.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

That's why I usually do my figure of eight knots about 6 to 10 inches from the end of the line. Just enough to pull back from the clutch / turning block etc.

The first item in Spinnakers 1.01 is "NO STOPPER KNOTS"

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

That is how we managed to pull it back

Sheets on spinnakers should be long enough to remain accessible even when the sail is fully flying, twice the boat-length is the rule of thumb, I think.

 

[BelleSerene]

The first item in Spinnakers 1.01 is "NO STOPPER KNOTS"

Can I suggest, I'm with you about tack and head, but just as religiously I'll always put a stopper knot in the spinnaker sheets, so a lazy sheet catching in the water doesn't go for a quiet walkees in the wake as a prelude to sniffing Belle Serene's dangly bits, where it has a habit of ending up. In fact, when the kite's not in use I also haul in on the sheets and bend the bight each one just inside the LFR/ block on the side deck into a figure of eight, to keep it all all inboard. It only takes a second to flick it out so the sheet will run.

 

[Kinsale373]

BelleSerene's story of the accidental opening of the Quick release shackle has convinced me to do without it and use the trusty Bowline. Ill spend the money saved on longer Sheets and Tack line !
Thinking about it. If I have the Tack on a long line back to the cockpit and if thinks go pear shaped and I can't de power the sail behind the Jib , then the next option will be to dump the tack line., Once I free out the tack line any distance then I won't be able to reach the Quick release cord or use a fid on the shackle anyway, so really they are a waste of money !
Ill go for the bowlines and have my trusty boning knife handy - just in case!

Thanks again guys , Kinsale 373