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Originally Posted by sandy daugherty  My prodder attaches behind the trampoline to a spinnaker pole bayonet on a universal joint; it stands over the forward crossbeam and is held up by screecher halyard tension. While I am currently using fixed waterstays (whiskerstays) which mean a fixed position for my screecher tack, I am considering bringing the whisker stays back inside the prodder to allow me to shift the tack laterally. I will need a small winch to do do so and maintain halyard tension. A present fear is that the proximity of the furled screecher is fouling the airflow on the genoa, The boat points a bit higher when the screecher is down. It may improve tacking the screecher, a royal PITA.
My prodder is a 3" carbon shaft, 9 feet long. The whole assembly can be pulled in to reduce my LOA 3 feet, by slacking the halyard and releasing the bayonet. Pole, furler, lines and mount weigh 26 pounds. The sail weighs 64 pounds. |
I once saw a picture of a boat with a setup a bit like yours Sandy, they had put a traveller track under the forebeam, and had a kind of "dolphin striker" on the prodder itself AFAIR. For a 3 ft extension it would probably work well, for a 6 ft/2 meter extension, I doubt that it would be enough unless the dolphin striker is really long.
A couple of lines for traveller control and you could do it from the safety of your cockpit.
I never use the jib with the Code 0 furled up, way too turbulence, but moving it to leeward sounds like a neat way of solving the problem.
Alan