spinnakers

[qsiv]

The Code 0 is on a furler, as is the reaching Asy, the VMG runner isnt, as it is easy to drop behind the main, and you wouldnt want the weighty luff that a furling sail must have on a light airs downwind sail.

The big symmetrical kite (which I seldom fly) has a snuffer - but as the sail wasnt built with a snuffer in mind this makes the leaches a bit on the long side.

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[MainlySteam]

Thanks for that.

Just keeping in mind what I may do sometime - conditions are so changeable or heavy most places we sail I have always avoided big light sails as I do all the deck work myself. However, the use of line furlers has completely changed the outlook on that so was interested how you managed the big sails with them.

Regards

John

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[charles_reed]

Next to my roller genoa the triradial spinnaker is my most used headsail.

Breakdown for last season as follows:

Motor (about 50% motorsailing with genoa) 189 hrs
Roller genoa (excluding motorsailing) 173 hrs
Spinnaker 58 hrs
Solent 23 hrs

Distance thro' water (apocryphal) 2050nM

Most of my sailing is single-handed but the spi's only about 700 ft2

Excessive proportion of motoring due to Med conditions, either no wind or too much.

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[tcm]

i use one almost every time I go out, even when just walking round london. Because I have got one of those jackets from the boat show made out of a secondhand sail material. Mine is made from a spinnaker, in fact from the spinnaker of Steinlager. So, having just come out of the guinness tent, i had to buy it, esp with it being very noisily crinkly. Can't really say it makes much difference to the boat speed.

Hope this helps.

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