Re: Rigging

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So far I haven't broken anything.
Did have a slow takedown (leeward takedown...
couldn't talk skipper into doing windward (A.K.A.
"Mexican") takedown. Tactician agreed w/ me,
but skipper wasn't comfortable with it.

The tack got into the water, but fortunately
we dragged it back in before it dragged the
rest of the sail over the side.

It was cold. It's a good thing we won, or
it would have been a long, cold, miserable race.

I'm not too worried about flying a spinnaker on
my own boat... I have 5 of them now. I'll keep
3 and give 2 of them with the Cal-25 when I sell 
it. I may even keep the worst one as well... that'd
give me two good ones and two old beatup useless 
training sails for crew building exercises. 

But for now, I need to learn about the area...
both local waters and race procedures. I have
to learn about tidal currents, eddy currents,
what the wind does in various channels around
Puget Sound, etc.

--- In SJ-24@yahoogroups.com, "sirstopher" <sirstopher@y...> wrote:
> 
> FYI
> The pdf shows only one sheet and one guy. The outline of the 
> spinnaker sail is the other line that you see, Let me add that file 
> is very old and outdated to the rigging on the boat. Sping 2004. 
All 
> of the rigging was replaced in the fall of 2004. I myself have not 
> raced on the San Juan. And only this summer found out that the 
> trimmer was behind the helmsman. This is when we realized we were 
> doing everything a little harder than required. My wife and myself 
> have been racing on an S2 7.9, she trims the sails and I am on the 
> forward deck or grind the genoa sheet in a blow. We have wrapped 
the 
> chute around the forstay, droped it in the water, hourglassed it, 
> undertrimmed, overtrimmed, and ripped it. It is sometimes nic to 
> sail at someone elses expence, Mark im sure you are finding that 
out 
> now. Chris Mckillip
> 
> --- 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?