Sailing downwind with a whisker-poled headsail
Oct 30, 2023 18:48:06 GMT
Post by dsalvail on Oct 30, 2023 18:48:06 GMT
Good day Jeanneau enthusiasts!
The snow falling on Eastern Canada this morning broke my heart, until I started looking for the whisker pole I need to hold my 125% headsail on our 2008 Sun Odyssey 45. I don't have access to the boat now (on the hard), but I seem to recall the mast is an EZ-Spar, and it has a 12-foot track installed some 30 inches off the deck. I'm attaching 2 pictures of the track.
I cannot identify the track's model. It measures 25-26mm in width, and has a square groove in the middle. It's definitely not a "T-track". The side groove into which the whisker-pole car will ride is rounded, rather than square, like on a T-track.
The profile illustrated here is a a Spi Track System 6000. The X dimension at the bottom seems off: the 6000 system lists this as 13 mm, but it feels narrow on my mast, suggesting that I don't have the right track yet.
Can anyone tell me what track they have on their Sun Odyssey?
I am looking to mount a whisker pole vertically against my mast: the spinnaker car will be at the top, and slide down when I pull out the whisker pole. The bottom of the whisker pole, corresponding to the out-end which attaches to the headsail, will be pointing down, held by a clamp, or clamped into a ring, or something.
I sail short-handed most of the time, and I can't have my whisker pole attached to the stanchions, for instance. I need to single-handedly bring it down from the mast, attach it to the headsail, and run back to the cockpit and unfurl the headsail.
If you have suggestions of which car fits into that track, and how you attached the bottom of the whisker pole, I'd love to hear of your experience.
Thanks!, and safe sailing over the winter! (I envy you...)
The snow falling on Eastern Canada this morning broke my heart, until I started looking for the whisker pole I need to hold my 125% headsail on our 2008 Sun Odyssey 45. I don't have access to the boat now (on the hard), but I seem to recall the mast is an EZ-Spar, and it has a 12-foot track installed some 30 inches off the deck. I'm attaching 2 pictures of the track.
I cannot identify the track's model. It measures 25-26mm in width, and has a square groove in the middle. It's definitely not a "T-track". The side groove into which the whisker-pole car will ride is rounded, rather than square, like on a T-track.
The profile illustrated here is a a Spi Track System 6000. The X dimension at the bottom seems off: the 6000 system lists this as 13 mm, but it feels narrow on my mast, suggesting that I don't have the right track yet.
Can anyone tell me what track they have on their Sun Odyssey?
I am looking to mount a whisker pole vertically against my mast: the spinnaker car will be at the top, and slide down when I pull out the whisker pole. The bottom of the whisker pole, corresponding to the out-end which attaches to the headsail, will be pointing down, held by a clamp, or clamped into a ring, or something.
I sail short-handed most of the time, and I can't have my whisker pole attached to the stanchions, for instance. I need to single-handedly bring it down from the mast, attach it to the headsail, and run back to the cockpit and unfurl the headsail.
If you have suggestions of which car fits into that track, and how you attached the bottom of the whisker pole, I'd love to hear of your experience.
Thanks!, and safe sailing over the winter! (I envy you...)
