J/30 Class Association Forums J/30 Forum The Boat, Sails and Equipment PHRF and Spin Pole Length

Hi,

What is the optimum overall spinnaker pole length for PHRF (Lake Ontario)? Is it the J length of 11'6" rather than the classs maximum of 12'6"?

Related to that, does anyone have experience flying class spinnakers with the 11'6" pole? How much is performance affected?

Thanks for your thoughts.