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NEILW
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 28 Sep 2007 : 18:25:43
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Hello, Can somebody please help with some advice/pics of how to rig the kite and pole on a Stratos?
I have recently purchased an ex-school boat and the pole and kite were not rigged. I have the Laser down-load but this still leaves me guessing. Does the halyard run straight from the block above the forestay to the block on the deck or is it suppoesed to run through a fairlead of some description?
Hope someone can help.
Thanks in anticipation.
NeilW 312
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pcarter
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28 Sep 2007 : 20:15:52
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The end of the halyard that emerges from the block above the forestay attaches to the head of the gennaker and does not go through any blocks or anyhting, as when the halayrd is pulled to raise the sail, the head of the sail will go very close to the mast near the block. The other end of the halyard comes out of the block at the bottom of the mast as shown in point 2 on page 16 of the current rigging manual. I think the rest of the procedure is shown reasonably well on pages 16-18 of the manual, but if you haven any specific questions please ask again.
Regards,
Pete 789 |
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NEILW
United Kingdom
32 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2007 : 21:08:26
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Thanks for that Pete but I don't have the block built into the mast shown in point 2 ,page 16. I have an external block on the left hand side of the foot of the mast when looking aft from the sock area, should the halyard run through this block and then to the swivel block and cleat on the deck or should it run to the head of the left hand block(again when looking aft from the sock area) of the pole and back to the swivel block and cleat on the deck??
Sorry to sound thick but our previous boat is a 1963 Wayfarer without a kite!
Thanks for you promt response.
Cheers
NEILW 312 |
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pcarter
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29 Sep 2007 : 11:56:49
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I should hae realised based on your sail number that you have the older design mast and boom. On this design the halyard runs outside the mast rather than through it. I had a quick look at some of these Stratos at our local club this morning. Most of them had covers on them, but from what I could see, the halyard should run down the starboard side of the mast to a block mounted low down on the mast - about 20cm from the base of the mast. Before I go further, you shoudl have a rope that runs from the aft end of the spinnaker pole. On our pole this emerges from the side edge of the pole, but on your pole you may have a slightly different design. On the rigging manual on page this rope is red. This rope runs forward to a block mounted inside the hull - if I remember correctly it is actually tied on to the mounting point so it can "float". At the other end of the rope there shoudl be another small block. All of this is point 3 on page 16 of the rigging manual.
The halyard runs forward from the block low down on the mast, through the block at the end of the "red rope" and then runs backward through the jaws of the cam cleat. Pulling on this rope at this point would do two things: 1) it would raise the sail (its the uphaul) and 2) it would pull on the "red rope" thus pulling the spinnaker pole forward and deploying it through the hull.
The end of the halyard then runs forward through a small block tied to the end of the aft of the spinnaker sock, through an eyelet in the spinnaker sock and all of the way up the sock to emerge up at the forward end. This is covered by p16 points 5 & 6 in the rigging manual. You may have to pass a small rope down through the sock to be able to pull the rope up through the sock. At this point I suppose you could now consider the halyard is the downhaul. When fully rigged the downhaul goes through a running "eye" in the sail and would be tied off on the patch on the sail. Before you would do that you would typically tie the downhaul off on the jib tack bar to prevent it accidentally being pulled back down through the sock, and always tie it off when you derig!
As it sounds as though your boat may not have been sailed with a gennaker, you should probably check the lenght of the rope that runs from the mast through the pole and emerges from the end of the pole (the genneraker tack line). If this is too long it would be possible for the pole to deploy too far and either fall out or strain the mounting). You also should make sure the "red rope" is not too long - when the pole is fully deployed the block at the end of it should be forward of the mast so that the halyard runs forward from the mast to this block
The rest of the spinnaker rigging instructions are pretty much as Laser recommends, although we always tie the spinnaker sheets to the clew with bowlines, because, if you find on the water you have rigged something incorrectly, it is possible to untie and rerig one end. Of course, this might be an indicator of how incompetent we are!
Come back again if I've not been clear on anything, and if anyone with the older style mast has anything to add please feel free to chip in.
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NEILW
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29 Sep 2007 : 18:03:08
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Many thanks again for that. I'll follow your advise when we go down to the reservoir tomorrow and try to rig(and hopefully sail with the kite)Thanks very much for your prompt response and detailed advice.
Neilw 312 |
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NEILW
United Kingdom
32 Posts |
Posted - 01 Oct 2007 : 21:44:29
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Hello Pete,
Not much luck yesterday, managed to rig as per your instructions but managed to get the bungee on the pole the wrong way around so the pole flew out but woud not return! Fixed that, managed a clean hoist(on the trolley) but when we tried to drop the kite the genniker sock split. Does any body make a pattern one of these or is it down to Laser Direct and £100? Anyway wer're on the right track now thanks to your help, one final question- where does the gennaker tack line attach?
Thanks again for all your help.
Neil, Gill and Clare 312 |
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pcarter
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 Oct 2007 : 22:06:24
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Hi Neil,
Oh dear. Doesn't sound like it was the rigth day for betting your house on a horse!
I am not certain of this, but from memory, I believe the gennaker tack line is attached to a small eye on the vertical drop from where the foredeck steps down to the main deck, under the mast buttress (my technical knowledge for the right name for this fails me here) i.e. just in front of the mast. This would be below the pole in picture 4 on p16 of the rigging manual.
Not sure whether you can get pattern socks from anywhere - I think Google is your friend here.
Regards,
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