Using a Spinnaker Pole

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Howto & Style

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• sailing
• sail
• sailboat
• tip
• John
• Kretschmer
• Forespar
• symmetrical
• spinnaker
• pole

[icearnett]

Can goose winging youg main and jib be as effective as this spinnaker? I am new to this. On my boat all I have is a main and one jib, pretty corney i know, but I cant afford much more at this point.

[lunarcod]

@icearnett - not too corny at all! Going wing-on-wing is not as efficient as using a spinnaker, but if that's all you can do it'll work just fine. We don't have a spinnaker or even a whisker pole on our boat, so if we have the wind straight up our stern we do the same thing...

[ApocalisseOra]

i hate the sock on the spinaker, put it down with fresh wind seems arduous, isn't it?.

[lunarcod]

Most cruising sailors seem to prefer the spinnaker sock, at least here in the US. The advice for pulling the sock down over the sail with strong wind is to blanket the spinnaker with the main as much as possible. Otherwise, yes, it can be arduous.

[Yellowfourteen]

What about gybing?

[lunarcod]

Great timing on your question. We are just now finishing a video on gybing with a spinnaker pole. It should be posted within two weeks. Thanks!

[OceanBien]

I've never seen a spinnaker pole used with the jaw facing down. With the jaws down, it's probably impossible to gybe the boat. Jaws facing up- always!!

Going dead down wind is a bad idea. You're likely to have an accidental gybe, the boat rolls around a lot, will often collapse, and it's s l o w.

Be careful giving advise when you'll put people in harms way with bad advise.

The video is marketed to people who don't know mubh about sailing. But it's better to give good advice versus bad advice.

[nallepuh6969]

Maybe he has never gybed with a spinnaker during his... was it 17 atlantic crossings...

[TheMohawkCut]

So many good memories come to my mind...

[allene222]

They have the jaw down so that the pole can be raised up the mast and stored. Same with whisker poles, they recommend jaw down. Doesn't work. Can't get the pole off the sheet as the sail wants to pull up and just follows the pole up as you try and free it from the sheet.

[hummesse]

Big risk of snapping the spinnaker pole while the windward gay is so loose that the pole is resting on the fore stay, especially with carbon spinnaker poles. Also there is the jaws down which several people noticed. Also there is a risk of blowing out the spinnaker in a little more wind when not setting it behind the main sail. It is important to have the loose sheet lying on top of the spinnaker pole, or else it would get stuck while gybing. But its not even attached in this film.

[ALOZANO94]

once the sock is up it stays there? is it recomendable for racing?

[odaviscwb]

Running the guy through the pole with jaws down is obviously unacceptable if racing, given the need to jibe frequently. I guess if you going to do a cruising set (with sock) and cruising jibe (i.e. kite down) then jaws down might be a technique minimizing the risk that the guy will work the plunger open and pop out of the jaws. Please let's remember that just because someone has sailed a gazillion miles on a cruising boat blah blah blah doesn't mean they know crap about racing technique.

[francescovedremo]

Why to by such a stuff to get spinnaker more and more complicated ?

[macksails]

Hi is still right. Jaw's up always!