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Re: Asymmetrical
[Re: mango madness]
#15287
10/23/13 09:16 PM
10/23/13 09:16 PM
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Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 147 Vancouver, BC, Canada
Vampire
Past Pacific Northwest District Governor
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Past Pacific Northwest District Governor
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 147
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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I am curious if your flying this from the standard spin sheve? And what your rating is going to be.
Here in the north west we sail a lot of courses in light air and that extra sqft would be great on the down wind run
Vampire #18 Don Bite Me
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Re: Asymmetrical
[Re: mango madness]
#15361
12/16/13 02:32 PM
12/16/13 02:32 PM
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Joined: May 2007
Posts: 2,669 Portsmouth, RI
Rhapsody #348
Past J/30 Class President
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Past J/30 Class President
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 2,669
Portsmouth, RI
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Alex - Nice pictures and glad to see you got the Asym up and flying. I assume you launched it with the sock I had with it. Make sure you keep the lines to raise and lower the sock tied to something that doesn't interfere with the spinnaker after you launch. Otherwise, retrieving the lines makes the douse more difficult :-)
ps - I can't tell from the picture where the tack is connected. Did you use the block with the adjustable line lead aft that was in the bag? That allows you to adjust the tack height from aft.
Last edited by Rhapsody #348; 12/16/13 02:39 PM. Reason: Tack line comment added
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Re: Asymmetrical
[Re: mango madness]
#16616
11/21/15 09:28 PM
11/21/15 09:28 PM
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Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 164 Portland, ME
JBiermann
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Posts: 164
Portland, ME
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Our biggest achilles heel when racing this past year was the downwind spinnaker leg. Let be take a step back; our biggest achilles heel was the lack of a full, consistent crew (specifically an experienced foredeck hand). Every turn around the windward can filled me with dread for I knew fluttering, hour-glassing, re-rigging chaos was sure to follow. Eventually, it got to the point that I would hand off the tiller and go forward myself to try and get the chute out cleanly only to look back and find that weeks thrown together crew looking with wide eyes at the pile of lines in the cockpit, unsure of what to put where or when to pull what. I've had a vision. After fetching our windward mark and turning down, a gennaker smoothly unfurls and fills while the genoa silently furls in with no poles, guys, twings or topping lifts involved. It seems the whole modern race world works with code zeros and big drifting sails (didn't see any spinnakers in the volvo ocean race or on the ritzy racing machines on Sailing Anarchy); does it make sense for an older racing boat like the J/30 to follow suit (at least as it concerns PHRF racing?) I'm thinking speed gains and ability to stage a competitive racing season with 2 or 3 dedicated crew. I'm thinking of fabricating a 3' or 4' bowsprit and flying a socked a-spin or a gennaker on a furler. Does it make sense to fly it all the way to the masthead or stay at the headstay? Just some early planning for next season...
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Re: Asymmetrical
[Re: mango madness]
#16708
01/19/16 08:09 PM
01/19/16 08:09 PM
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Joined: Nov 2012
Posts: 125 San Francisco
alx
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San Francisco
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I fly an asym from a sock on Ananda, off of a 2' carbon fiber aftermarket sprit with a bobstay to take the sprit tension. I considered a furling system but my sailmaker was pretty pessimistic about a furler working on the J-30 - the spinnaker halyard exits basically at the forestay, which is way too close. A furler needs at least 6-8 inches of clearance to operate properly and preferably even more. The sock is great, though, and the sail flies beautifully: /
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