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Gridrat:
I like the tracker also. Thanks for posting the website.

selene:
I hope, dear colleagues, you will excuse a bit of a ramble.  I have been reflecting on my spinnaker setup after reading some of the points in this thread - but with summer winds here at 20-25kn every day, I am not going to experiment until the fall, when the winds die down a trifle!

Ed - that small bolt is intriguing, thank you for pointing it out. Looks like a potentially great anchor point - perhaps with a small tang of some kind? Incidentally, I do not have a hole in my anchor platform steel sheet, but I would be worried about deflection of the sheet.  I am less concerned about the long lever arm, as the anchor platform seems to be pretty solid; and I know that the spinnakers generate a lot of lateral force, but vertical force? Don't know.

I had a good chat with a friend who has a new (few years old) Catalina 34 who frequently uses an asym.  Many of his learnings are relevant to us.

- Tack: He had a bracket fabricated above his anchor track. It is a few inches forward of the forestay, close to "Ed's Bolt" location, and inside the pulpit.  He said he was surprised - initially he rigged it forward of the pulpit, but the tack line always seemed to pull aft (and snag on his running lights), so he moved it inside the pulpit, where it works well.

- Tack line is run though blocks on the stanchions (http://garhauermarine.com/ProductSpecs.cfm?pid=290) to a clutch installed on the jib track (http://garhauermarine.com/ProductSpecs.cfm?pid=186). He runs the furler control line on the port side, the spinnaker line on the starboard side. (we're big Garhauer fans around here...)

- He raises and lowers the spinnaker, like me, forward of and blanketed by the jib; he uses a sock.

- Winches - like us, he has a single pair of main winches. But he installed turning blocks (as Gridrast mentioned) so the working spinnaker sheets run across the cockpit to the windward winch. 
We have cleats in that position; I will try lashing (snatch block?) a block to each cleat, which should allow the spin sheet to run to a block on the jib track back to the cleat turning block, and across the cockpit to the windward winch. Have not tested the geometry yet.

Like I said...just thoughts...

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