Rigging for an Asymmetric Spinnaker

[Ted Pounds]

A couple of tricks when you're working in that small space by the bow:  Tie a string to your wrenches so that you can retrieve them easily if dropped.  Tap one of the holes in the backing plate  (and drill an extra hole in it for some string) so that a bolt will hold it in place while you fiddle around trying to get the nuts and washers on.

[dbpaul]

Tom Soko   

Some people just need pictures.

Thanks...........picture worth 1000.



paulj

[tonywright]

After inspecting the bow roller carefully, it seemed to me that it was already set up to take a spinnaker tack.

So I put a call into Catalina and spoke to Kent. Here's the information from Kent:   Catalina already put a fairly substantial backing plate under the bow anchor roller bolts on the MKII. (I checked, and it is definitely there.)The anchor roller has a hole about halfway along (port side) to take a shackle for a turning block. This is the place to attach the spinnaker tack.

The outer track is the standard place for either an extra set of genoa blocks, or stand-up blocks for the sheets.

Cheers

Tony

[Wayne]

Scroll down to see a picture of my A spinnaker setup . . . the tangs instead of a bowsprit, my little bobstay, and the blue spinnaker halyard . . .
Hope all of this helps!