I’m about to acquire a Freedom 36 Cat-Sloop. The Spinnaker running rigging is missing. I do have the double ended yard/pole with the gun mount on the pulpit and a messenger line for the spinnaker halyard. Does anyone have a list of line lengths and working loads?
Is a single continuous rein (going from pole end fitting, through a block snapped to the toe-rail across the cockpit and mirrored on the other side) the best solution OR are two two separate reins a better handling solution?
Is it best for the clew lines to run directly from the sheaves at the ends of the poke to blocks at the base of the pulpit before going aft through the paired fairleads or should there be a pair of blocks attached to the top of the pulpit with the clew lines running from pole end sheaves to upper pulpit blocks and then to the pulpit base blocks before entering the fairleads?
It looks like I’ll have to add a spinnaker halyard turning block to the mast ring/base and add another hole through the traveler support. Any drilling suggestions? Is a hole saw the correct method? What are the anti-friction thimbles properly called?
Thanks
John
I have an F25. The line weights and lengths are in the owner’s manual. On an F25, the reins are continuous. You only need a bit of slack sitting in the cockpit, because if it’s long on one side, it’s short on the other.
Since the pole pivots on the gun mount, the clew lines can run from the blocks at the end of the pole to the blocks at the base of the pulpit.
You do need blocks at the gun mount on the top of the pulpit for the lines that deploy and pull in the spinnaker pole.
I’d be surprised if you don’t have a spinnaker halyard turning block already. My F25 has four attachments for blocks at the base of the mast: spinny halyard, mains’l halyard, first reef line and second reef line.
Sorry, but a previous owner took the spinnaker halyard to a cleat on a piece of wood that hinges to the mast ring, so no spinnaker halyard turning block.
The F36 uses a yard/pole tapered at both ends. The yard doesn’t live in the gun-mount tube. It is manually slid into the gun-mount tube and locked into position with a pin that goes through the side of gun-mount and into the yard. There are not the in/out adjustment lines found on constant diameter tube set-ups.
And the manual for the F36 doesn’t call out the running rigging for the spinnaker.
I’m hoping someone has an official F36 spinnaker addendum.
Wow…that is interesting. On my Freedom 32 I can launch it all from the cockpit, including extending the pole, Part of what works is how much to extend it…for reaching vs dead down wind. Often I use it like a cruising spinnaker or gennaker.