Folks,
Wanted your thoughts on spinnaker use, specifically gybing with just skipper and one crew member. I have been getting in as much spinnaker use as possible these days and am feeling pretty good with launches and douses now. Gybing still seems a little problematic. I believe my problems are all due to my not having a sequence figured out as helmsmen/skipper.
What I have been doing:
#1. Driving the boat into the sail, effectively dead downwind.
#2. Release the Spinnaker pole downhaul
#3. Crew trips pole and does the end for end thing.
At this point about 50% of the time the kite collapses and wraps the forestay. I have been able to unwrap it by completing the gybe (pulling over the main and steering to get the kite filled again {this is as much luck as any competence on my part}).
When things go smoothly, the kite remains full, I gybe the main and crew comes back to trim. My boat does not have tweens, I am running the spinn sheets back to blocks on the stock tracks on the rail (all the way forward) and then to the stock winches.
Thoughts?
Thanks Much,
Keay
"Dayspring"
