by Synthia Petroka
What is your budget & expectations?
Minimum: Mainsail, #3, #1, .75 oz AP spinnaker
Budget: Minimum plus blast reacher (135%) or butterfly, and 1.5 oz shy kite
No limit: Budget plus jib top (155%), more kites than food!
Sport Boats: Asymmetric spinnakers
4 Legs of the race
Start to Pt. Bonita: Beat
Normal: start with #1, change to #3 outside gate
Light air: Light #1
Heavy air: #3
Close Reach: Can’t carry yet
Normal: Blast Reacher
Light air: Jib Top, Drifter, Code Alpha, VMG spinnaker
Heavy air: Blast Reacher
Running:
Normal: Reacher or shy kite, asymmetric, what you have when you can
Light air: Drifter
Heavy air: shy kite
Trade Winds to Finish:
Normal: full sized spinnaker during day-runner. At night, heavy air
kite, butterfly jib, polled out blast reacher
Light air: .5 oz, AP for higher AWA
Heavy air: shy kite
Storm Sails: storm trys’l, storm jib, Gail sail (ATN)
Spinnaker Socks: ATN
Spinnaker Nets: fills fore triangle with something to keep spinnaker from wrapping around
forestay.
Outgrabbers: floating block suspended from boom, attaches to spinnaker sheet between clew and
boat, pulls clew outboard to stabilize spinnaker.