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delliottg
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Initially Posted - 02/19/2009 :  21:41:20  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
I bought a spinnaker pole last weekend, now I need to think about rigging it. I've got a spinnaker halyard on the crane, but no topping lift for it. I'm thinking of just rigging a second block up there, or maybe a double block for the halyard & topping lift. I can fairly easily rig a downhaul using a spare block on my mast foot.

How have you rigged yours? Where do you store your pole? I'm thinking vertically along the mast, or maybe attached to a couple of stanchions like my whisker pole is now.

I'm also contemplating using the pole as a gin pole for stepping the mast. The guys at the rigging shop I got it from thought this was a viable idea, I'd just need to come up with a way to mount it at the foot of the mast.
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DJAnderson
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Response Posted - 02/19/2009 :  22:42:01  Show Profile  Visit DJAnderson's Homepage
Sorry, don't have answers to all your questions, but for the topping lift, I would mount a block on the mast about where the spreaders are. You don't want it at the mast head with the halyard because when you gybe the pole, the pole and the lift go inside the forestay while the spinnaker flies outside of it. Make sense? I don't have a spinnaker on my 250, yet, but this is how my old boat was rigged.
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Response Posted - 02/20/2009 :  05:49:26  Show Profile



this is not a spinnaker ..but trying to learn with a drifter sail
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Steve Blackburn
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Response Posted - 02/22/2009 :  19:57:51  Show Profile  Visit Steve Blackburn's Homepage
Sean you installed the track on the mast afterwards? It looks welded to the mast? Looks like it goes all the way up?
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Response Posted - 02/23/2009 :  08:19:21  Show Profile
hey steve , yea I added the track its a 1" track 10` tall..but all the spinnakar cars are for a 1 1/4 track ..the 1" track has 1/4 inch mounting screws , the bigger track has 5/16 mounting screws with coarse thread
the mast is not realy thick enough for a coarse thread ..

so i have everything to make a car , with rope to adjust the car height ..the car its on now is tuff to adjust when the sails up and pressures on it

and thats some silicone i put on before i screwed it down .
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Steve Blackburn
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Response Posted - 02/23/2009 :  13:50:38  Show Profile  Visit Steve Blackburn's Homepage
It's a really nice clean installation Sean the best I've seen so far on a C250. Mounting the pole up like this is just like on the bigger boats too and where it should be. I need to install a Whisker/Spin pole for this upcoming season. How is the track mounted on the mast? Do you drill holes then tap threads, and with locktite?
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Response Posted - 02/24/2009 :  03:54:04  Show Profile
yea i just drilled and tapped it ..

makes it real easy to set it up ..
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