Bill Kraus
Bainbridge Island, WA
Boat Name:
Model/Year: Catalina 22
Hull No.
Hailing Port: |
 01/02/2007 5:13 PM Pacific Time
First, thanks to all for the various advice on setting up my rigging for a cruising chute (gennaker, asymmetrical spinaker, whatever ;-).
Since I want to fly the chute outside my forestay, I have installed a spin crane from CD on my mast head with a block hanging off of it. It occurs to me that when the chute is flown off one side of the boat, the spinnaker halyard will cross in front of the forestay and rub against it (e.g. chute is on the starboard side, the block on the spin crane is also on the starboard side, but the halyard is run down through a block attached to the mast step to a rope clutch on the port side of the deck, so it crosses over the forestay from starboard to port).
Do I understand this right? If so, is this a problem, or is the potential chafing of the spin halyard with the wire forestay minimal ? If not, any rigging ideas? |
David Torrisi
Santa Clara, CA
Boat Name: Dumbo
Model/Year: 1975 C-22
Hull No. 4330
Hailing Port: Santa Clara |
01/02/2007 8:08 PM Pacific Time
Bill,
I used a similar setup for 6 years without any trouble. I had the spin block hanging from the forward most pin in the mast head. There's a photo here:
http://dumbo.torrisi.org/gallery/Details/dscf0891?full=1
I recently ran the spin halyard internal and like it much better. I used Gene Ferguson's guide here: http://www.fleet47.com/projects.htm titled 'Clean Up Those Lines'. My photos are here: http://dumbo.torrisi.org/gallery/Details/DSCF1866
Hope that helps.
David
http://dumbo.torrisi.org
http://c22region10.org/bb |
