Wire span for spinnaker pole?

[chris-s]

Cue much clanging and general spinnaker mayhem...

Isn’t that mandatory?

 

[flaming]

Personally I don't like bridles on poles stored on deck, it's string or wire lying on the deck trapping dirt and getting underfoot.
I respect that other people have different priorities.

if you splice a length of bungee into the dynema you can have the bridle tight to the pole when not in use.

 

[penfold]

we had that on the Sonata, it does make stowing the pole a lot tidier.

 

[Captain Crisp]

if you splice a length of bungee into the dynema you can have the bridle tight to the pole when not in use.

Do you mean it goes dyneema-bungee-dyneema? Is there any reason not to simply use strong bungee the whole way? Would that be too springy..?

 

[flaming]

Do you mean it goes dyneema-bungee-dyneema? Is there any reason not to simply use strong bungee the whole way? Would that be too springy..?

No I mean insert bungee into the dynema, as in inside the rope, so that under tension the dynema takes the load, but when slack the bungee contracts to keep it taught - ish.
Bungee by itself would be a bowman’s worst nightmare!