A question for the 40/40 owners who use a cruising spinnaker. The halyard exits the mast below the forestay. The logic of this escapes me as it makes gybing very complicated (in my mind). My 40/40 has a tall rig and the tack of the sail attaches to a line that goes through a turning block that is attached to the anchor roller hoop. It seems like i would have to douse the sail, detach the tack line and re run the line to the opposite side of the furler drum to “gybe”. Or in other words…you cant gybe. Its a set it for one tack and thats it. Am I missing something?
I think I should also say that I just took over stewardship of hull #10 built special for the owner of freedom. He kept her pristine condition and I intend to do the best I can to carry the torch. Its an amazing boat.
On my F32 (Mull) - I believe the mast may be similar in dimensions (circa 55 feet) and fittings (ie sheaves/exit points) - the jib halyard exits beneath the forestay.
The spinnaker halyard exits from the mast head hence no issues of the type you describe.
It may be worth checking your masthead to see if there is a suitable exit point/sheave.
Incidentally with your current set up, do you have an excessively long halyard tail in the cockpit? If “yes” that may indicate that the halyard has been incorrectly setup.
The spinnaker halyard on my boat is 33 metres or 104 feet long.
Thanks for your input here. I didnt think that i had a shive at the mast head but now that you mention it, theres a halyard messenger that is cleated at the base of the mast and dead ended up at the turning block for the jib sheet that is about 20’ up the mast. The messenger is white and the mast is white so it is impossible to see it up there. It would make sense for it to be attached to that block if the messenger was previously used for the jib halyard. I do have the spin halyard and will measure it. It never even occurred to me that there could be a shive up there. Thank you for your help
Not entirely relevant but here is our sail flying the day we lost our forestay. We only used it on the one tack. Flew great and added at least a full knot.
