Hello all. I’m new to this forum as well as my recently purchased 1987 36/38. I have searched around the forum but havent found what I need and would appreciate some guidance on the following.
It’s probably rigged the same as my F25. I resuscitated the manual into a Google Doc: F25Manual - Google Docs
This shows the core of it: Nova Vita — Chadwick Pond Boats
You have three lines to control the spinny: starboard sheet, port sheet, and the reins. The two sheet lines go from the two clews down to a block on the respective end of the spinnaker pole. Then the sheets go to blocks at the gunmount. Then they go down to blocks at the base of the pulpit. From there they go back to port and starboard locks.
The reins are one line connected to port and starboard ends of the pole, then back to their respective bulleyes and locks. Or, more accurately, port goes to bullseye, and lock, then you have some slack in the cockpit, then it goes through the lock, bullseye, and to the starboard end of the pole. You don’t need more than that because when one lets out the other one comes in.
No, that’s not right. the two sheets go from blocks at the end of the pole to blocks at the base of the pulpit, then aft. The lines attached to the ends of the spinnaker pole go to the blocks at the gunmount, and are used to pull out and pull in the spinnaker pole.
You may guess (correctly!) that I haven’t installed my spinnaker pole yet.
Russ,
An F36 isn’t just a scaled up F25 (or F28). Different solutions were found. You really can’t use ropes to slide a tapered pole through a gun-mount tube the way you can a constant diameter pole. So the tapered pole is manually lifted and slid into position with the location fixed with a pin through the gun-mount tube and pole.
Advice related to the clew lines and the pole rotating reins apply across all the various models of Freedoms with gun-mount systems.
Most Freedoms use fractional hoist spinnakers . The wing masted Freedom 25 from the early production period use masthead spinnakers, and have broken masts due to the loads created. My F25wm has running backstays to support the mast tip when flying spinnaker in typical summer winds on San Francisco Bay.