Spinnaker
Spinnaker
Does anyone have instructions on how to rig the spinnaker in the sock for a Mutineer. I am fixing one up and the sock had to be replaced but I have no idea how to run the lines from the bow into the sock for easy deployment.
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Hi Turfdog,
I have zero experience on a Mutineer so my help may be usless.
However I have experience with a spinnaker and sock.
Maybe a description of my setup will help?
When rigging my sock for use, the bag the sock and spinnaker are in is attatched to the toe rail to keep it from blowing overboard. I always attatch it to the leeward side of the boat.
I have two sheets hooked up to the clew of the sail. I run both sheets properl outside of everything to the stern of the boat remembering to run the lazy sheet or windward sheet forward and around the forstay.
The tack of the spinnaker has a large sleeve that wraps around the forstay. attatched to the bottom of the sleeve is a line that drops to the deck and through a block at deck level and is cleated off. This allows for adjusting the tack up and down as necessary.
The top of the spinnaker sock is then attatched to the spinnaker halyard and is now ready to raise. I always raise the spinnaker inside the sock in the windshadow of the main sail. Once raised and tied off, I go to the bottom of the sock where there are two lines. One is to raise the sock and one is to lower the sock over the spinnaker.
I grab the line that raises the sock and pull it quickly to raise the sock quickly since the spinnaker will fill with air fast. Once the sock is raised I tie off the two lines at the base of the mast.
Here is a photo of Destiny. You can see the sleeve around the forstay and also the sock at the top of the spinnaker.
Again, I have no idea how your system might work but this is how mine works.
Hope this helped!
Scott
I have zero experience on a Mutineer so my help may be usless.
However I have experience with a spinnaker and sock.
Maybe a description of my setup will help?
When rigging my sock for use, the bag the sock and spinnaker are in is attatched to the toe rail to keep it from blowing overboard. I always attatch it to the leeward side of the boat.
I have two sheets hooked up to the clew of the sail. I run both sheets properl outside of everything to the stern of the boat remembering to run the lazy sheet or windward sheet forward and around the forstay.
The tack of the spinnaker has a large sleeve that wraps around the forstay. attatched to the bottom of the sleeve is a line that drops to the deck and through a block at deck level and is cleated off. This allows for adjusting the tack up and down as necessary.
The top of the spinnaker sock is then attatched to the spinnaker halyard and is now ready to raise. I always raise the spinnaker inside the sock in the windshadow of the main sail. Once raised and tied off, I go to the bottom of the sock where there are two lines. One is to raise the sock and one is to lower the sock over the spinnaker.
I grab the line that raises the sock and pull it quickly to raise the sock quickly since the spinnaker will fill with air fast. Once the sock is raised I tie off the two lines at the base of the mast.
Here is a photo of Destiny. You can see the sleeve around the forstay and also the sock at the top of the spinnaker.
Again, I have no idea how your system might work but this is how mine works.
Hope this helped!
Scott
Spinnaker
Thanks for the suggestion and although my sock in inside the cockpit (being a small craft) I think I have a configuration that should work. Will be setting up the rigging this weekend and will check out my configuration on land to see how it works.