[Rhodes22-list] whiskerpole - reply to Slim

[Mary Lou Troy]

We have the heavier Forespar pole (spring clips at both ends) which 
we attach to a padeye on the mast and the sheets near the clew. We 
haven't needed extra lines to control the pole. I think (it's been a 
while) that it seems to work best with the sail furled slightly - 
otherwise it leans on the spreaders. I think our padeye is a bit low 
but the pole works ok anyway. We have track for the mast but have 
never installed it. We store the pole on the pegboard in the v-berth. 
It has come in handy at times but we don't use it as much as we use 
the UPS for downwind work. I have scared myself using it in building 
winds downwind.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD

At 08:18 AM 9/24/2008, you wrote:
>Ed,
>Previously I had a much heavier whisker pole which I never used due to the
>complexity of setting it. The lighter pole works just fine. Using Roger P's
>solution was way to labor intensive, especially setting all the 
>lines. Roger,
>being an engineer always over engineered everything on his boat and still
>managed to get into trouble.
>
>Rummy
>
>
>In a message dated 9/23/2008 7:01:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>ekroposki at charter.net writes:
>
>
>Slim:
>
>As you recall we used to have a member of this forum,  aka, Roger P.  He
>strongly recommended for the 175 or even his 155  Genoa to use the heavy
>weight Forespare telescoping 6-12 Spinnaker pole and  not use the tiny
>whisker pole.
>
>As per his recommendations, my boat  has a eye for a block about 2/3 up the
>mast.  It is for holding the  weight of the Spinnaker Pole.  The extra sheive
>on top of the mast is  used for the sail end of the pole to support the
>weight of the 175 Genoa  Sail.  With a couple of preventor lines this
>combination holds the  pole up, the sail out for light wind.  There is also a
>removeable eye  to attach the inner end of the pole to the mast.  Whether it
>is used  for Genoa or Spinnaker.  Just like the big boats.
>
>The eye on the  mast and the line thru the sheive on top of the mast allows
>the pole to  placed verticle against the front of the mast to get it out of
>the  way.
>
>I have an old tiny sysmetrical spinnaker I bought off an old  'lightning
>racer' after he sold his boat [They are 19 feet, but race  boats].  The buyer
>would not give him anything for the sail when he  sold the boat so he kept
>them and sold me one.  After several patches  and many stitches I have a
>small light weight spinnaker.  It works  when poling the Genoa does not.  It
>just takes a 2-3 mph wind to fill  it out and take me home.  Slow but no iron
>jenny.
>
>Roger's point  was that a good gust of wind would bend a whisker pole.
>Rummy's method  might require quick hands to save the pole.  He would have to
>put down  his drink to do it.
>
>Ed K
>Greenville, SC,  USA
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