Re: Rigging

["Gil Lund" <gil@-lCgGXOXOAyyIeUJSVp2tjwBdkNHIusCltd0slqX9cBQPvRzEe-5cbTQluxpd-d0ORuiR_lPuffSgA.yahoo.invalid>]

Mark
I have found that unless you are set up to "dip pole jibe" single 
sheets are the way to go on even fairly big boats. We end for end 
jibe with single sheets on my Dash 34 without problems of any kind. 
The advent of light graphite poles has made it a lot easier to do 
this. It also helps if you have the driving / trimming skills to 
carry the spinnaker comfortably with no pole at all for the time it 
takes to do the jibe. To be competitive downwind we practice running 
the spinnaker cleanly without the pole with wind angles of at least 
+/-15 deg. This skill will give you a big tactical advantage and is a 
greate tool if you need to fake a jibe and throw your cometition off 
their stride.
gil



--- In SJ-24@yahoogroups.com, m_kanzler@y... wrote:
> 
> The SJ-24 is small enough that you don't need them.
> 
> On the bigger boats it is easier to hook the end of
> the pole to the lazy afterguy than to do it when
> it's under tension. If you only have one line to
> each clew/tack it is always under tension.
> 
> In light air you don't connect the lazy sheets,
> they are not used until the wind can support both
> lines.
> 
> Here's a link:
> http://www.harken.com/rigtips/spinnaker.php
> 
> 
> --- In SJ-24@yahoogroups.com, "Gil Lund" <gil@l...> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Why in the world would anybody use double sheets on a boat that 
is 
> > designed to do end to end jibes?