cruising chute for CD-28

[Ed McGinnis]

Any one with tips for rigging an MPS for the CD 28? Alchemy is hull #289 with old style North roller furling on the headstay with a 2 groove foil. The self tending jib was ditched by previous owners due to the often midsummer light airs on the Chesapeake. No spinnaker halyard, but I have installed a pole and track. Can I run snatch blocks off the two aft cleats for the sheets? Has anyone installed a spinnaker halyard?...How ? Replies much appreciated. Ed



digger@shore.intercom.net

[Bill]

Ed

Aboard Rhapsody, I use two blocks of the aft cleats and they seam to work fine.

I am afraid I'm not much use on the halyard ??'s! I currently use the jib halyard for the asymetrical (sp). I have a bail for the masthead, but it would require the the spinnaker be flown outside the rigging. I am not sure I want to do that yet.

Good luck.

Bill



cd25d@clnk.com

[chuck yahrling]

Any one with tips for rigging an MPS for the CD 28? Alchemy is hull #289 with old style North roller furling on the headstay with a 2 groove foil. The self tending jib was ditched by previous owners due to the often midsummer light airs on the Chesapeake. No spinnaker halyard, but I have installed a pole and track. Can I run snatch blocks off the two aft cleats for the sheets? Has anyone installed a spinnaker halyard?...How ? Replies much appreciated. Ed

My CD-27 came with a North genniker, an asymmetrical spinnaker desgined for cruising. There is no pole; you use conventional jib sheets. I got a couple extra small genoa sliders with standup blocks, through which I run a 3/8" sheet line. The blocks are usually at the rear of the stock genoa traveller tracks.

I bought and installed a spinnaker halyard bail kit from Spartan for about $45. You need to drill and tap four 1/4" bolt holes in the top of the truck to mount it. It was easy on the ground, but unless you have a bucket truck, you'll probably need to drop the mast.

Conventional spinnakers need to be jibed outside the headstay, so you need a halyard like the above. Some aymmetricals (aka drifters) let you tack inside the headstay (thus allowing use of the jib halyard), others need to be outside. There are a lot of posts about this subject in the message archives.



yahrling@cybertours.com