[Public-List] ideal Asymetrical spinnaker size

[Bill Wallace]

I sewed myself a nylon drifter this winter - total cost about $250.  No idea how well it will fly, but total work wasn't that high - about 40 hours total.  I got it raised just before hauling the boat in the fall, but I didn't have time to take the boat out with it since I was lowering that mast about 15 minutes later.  I used sailcad to design it, and the cloth is just ripstop nylon from a  sewing store - usually if you buy the rest of the roll you get some amount of discount so I think I was paying around $6/metre.

Bill


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 From: John Riley <jriley at dsbscience.com>
To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> 
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 5:07:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Public-List] ideal Asymetrical spinnaker size
 
Glennb wrote:
> Anybody have an idea of what an ideal size could be for an asymetrical spinnaker for single or short handed cruising?  North Sails Direct has some pretty good prices on a 33' tri radial genneker at the moment.
>
> thanks,
>
> Glenn P
> Dolce

For single or short handed cruising, I'd say forgo the spinnaker
completely.  A drifter (nylon genoa) is a good alternative, and one can
pole out the drifter on one side and use the regular genoa to leeward as
twins - mondo headsail area in smaller, easier to handle, pieces.  The
drifter is more versatile and easier to use than a spinnaker, and thus
the money spent on it gives a bigger return.

Not a lot of short handed "cruising" boats, at least distance cruising
boats, fool with spinnakers.  Some do, of course, but statistically not
many.

Food For Thought.

-- 
John S. Riley
S/V Gaelic Sea
1972 Alberg 30 #521

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