Whoopie!!!!!!! I raised my spinnaker!

[romei]

I got a spinnaker and a genoa with my boat when I bought it but had no idea on how to rig or sail either one.  So I hit google a bunch and found some really great sailing lessons on youtube.  (Just go to youtube.com and search for "sailing lessons")

Anyway, Saturday was really mild on the lake so I decided to give them a whirl for the first time.  I found out how to use a whisker pole :-D

Woo Hoo!

Now that I feel a little more comfortable with setting them up I'm looking forward  to a little stiffer breeze next time.

http://www.ronmeinsler.com/compac/spinnaker.jpg

[Paul]

Cool. 

[Craig Weis]

I really enjoy a L O N G sail with my spinnaker when the wind will drive me 14 miles from Sturgeon Bay to Mariette. That's a nice ride...hoping to do this this weekend as our USPS club is doing a 'roundup'. Those not going by motor yacht [me] will be sailing...
we have 3-Com-Pac 19's, 1-Sovereign 27, 1-Hage 26  and its potluck Friday night, dinner at a steakhouse Saturday, and left over spaghetti in between. Fun!! Drinking on shore, walking town and live [crapy] bands at the boweling Alley.

The spinnaker I fly is tacked on the bow pulpit and clewed from the sail all the way back to the stern cleat. That spinnaker sheet is on the outside of everythink...standing rigging, everything. I adjust the boat's course to fill the spinnaker as she really pulls in a breeze. The spinnaker controls are simply a chute sleeve or bag and this sheet.
I tried the 155% head sail lapper but this was a handful to sail. I have no pole. skip.