RE: Cruising Spinnaker

Eric Johnson (etj@nwlink.com)
Mon, 2 Aug 1999 06:51:16 -0700


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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I just ordered the sail Rye told us about. Thanks for the pointer...

I have never flown a chute of any kind... is there a writeup somewhere on
this? I'm not going to have time to do much in the way of rigging between
now and my next Flathead trip on Saturday... is it ok to fly a spinnaker
from the jib halyard on a tall-mast P19? Is it ok to fly one from the
masthead? the top few feet of my p19 mast is unstayed - is that an issue?

This is a pole-less spinnaker - but is there any way my whisker pole is
going to help?