J/30 Class Association Forums J/30 Forum Racing Tools and Techniques Launching Spin from Front Hatch?

fitting name for a boat that looks like it can get 1400 lb with seven crew.
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Actually I think the pic Vic referenced is "Circus" hull 47, at the time owned by Mike Bird & Charlie Wurzbach. Fat City has the inverse of the orange / white stripes shown in the picture.

We come from the companion way school of spinnaker launching. Seems to keep weight off of the foredeck more. The North Sails rectangular spinnaker bags seem to be about the perfect size to use for launching/stowing the chute.

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thats Circus/ Mike Bird's former boat out of Chicago

Hum maybe we should try launching from the front hatch LOL.

> Hum maybe we should try launching from the front hatch LOL.

ANYTHING to slow you down. Put one of the bubba's forward and it should give us a chance to catch up

Ok so a new twist. I have a spin bag that fits the pulpit. Does anyone launch out of a pulpit bag? Seems like it gives you a lot of flexability? However someone is all the way forward on the takedown.

We always launch from the pulpit bag with our .75 and from the first stantion aft with the .6. Usually take town to leward into the companion way unless sailing a low enough angle to take the pole down early and the chute to windward. We then repack, run the strings forward to do it again the next launch.

It seems that I have show a bunch of different crew each season how to set up the spin in the vee berth ... but we are in Vee Jay's Xmas Spin season. So I thought I would make it easier on myself by doing a quick video on how to set the spin up in the vee berth.

Yes, I know most of you guys don't have a Xmas Spin ... problably because you don't sail much in December.

And perhaps this video isn't quite the way everyone sets up the spin in the vee berth ... but this method seems to work reasonably well in training the older crew that we have here.

Optionally for setting up in a bag ... it is really easy, once it is set up in the vee berth, to simply put the bag at the cutout where the filler board would normally be, and starting with the foot, stuff the sail into the bag.



[For anyone who is wondering how to do these videos ... The camera is a Contour HD @$225 via ebay. and to make it sort of look a bit more upscale we have just started to use the free Windows Live Movie Maker, which allows us to add some text, tie some shorter clips together, and use a still picture.
The only odd thing is that when working with video, you press the button and it will process a video clip for 20 minutes using the low-end desktop max compute. This video took about 40 minutes to load into YouTube, but that's limited by their speed.]

I will do about 25 races this December (-: Albeit in a Sonar.

Cool video Vic. Should be very helpful for people.

DB