New Spinnaker
Pemandia
Peter Fabricius
Tue 26 Jul 2016 17:28
From first light this morning there was a suspicion of a breeze and I was delighted to see that as predicted it had gone to the W. After breakfast we could sail and ghosted along until we thought there would be enough wind to fill the spinnaker.
Hoisting it was easy. Peter uses a sniffer made by ATN rather than his own. It is hard to believe what a difference a good sniffer makes to ease of handling. This one has the setting and dowsing lines both in sleeves so they can not get twisted. Why did no one else think of that? At first it was difficult to keep filled but with 4K apparent wind we were making about 4K. As the breeze strengthened we whizzed along, recording speeds of up to 8k! By tea time the wind had backed quite a bit and increased. The spinnaker was a bit shy and I started to imagine what could go wrong, so we lowered it. Again the sniffer worked like a dream and the whole thing was back in a locker with all ropes away and pole stowed in no time at all.
Now the Genoa is set again. It is a bit overcast after a sunny day. All of us still in shorts, enjoying life in the cockpit. I can feel a G&T coming on later: I wonder if those mysterious girls from the outward trip will be at the party.
Peter
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