Cruising Spinnaker Primer

[Andy Denmark]

The Webperson (Webmistress?) of the Pamlico County/Oriental, NC URL saw fit to resurrect a cruising spinnaker primer I wrote while a partner at the local Banks Sails loft. At the behest of my neighbor (who just bought a cruising chute), I am referring it to the CD newsgroup. If you'd like to learn about this beautiful sailing area and read about cruising spinnakers in the process go to this URL: "pamlico-nc.com" and click on "Cruising - a spinnaker might be for you."



trekker@coastalnet.com

[Jim]

Your comments are correct that a large downwind sail can be fun, beautiful, and a big performance enhancer. There are many spinnaker-like choices available from today's sailmakers that make near-spinnaker performance easy to achieve by cruisers. I used to use full spinnakers, but gave them up as too attention-demanding for short-handed, relaxed cruising. On my former boat, I carried a Genaker, a genoa-spinnaker combination that hanked on the forestay but billowed out like a spinnaker, and I used it a LOT. My new CD30K has a Hood MPS, which is bigger, and billows out very much like a spinnaker, but still seems easy to control. (I'll know after I splash the boat and take it sailing.)



jimhpac@aol.com

[Michael Stephano]

>My new CD30K has a Hood MPS

On a boat I used to captain we had a Hood MPS. The Mate and myself dubbed it MOST POPULAR SAIL as we used it all the time.



mundo@visi.net