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Our gennaker sounds like it is very similar to yours. It just goes up (in the sock) on the spin halyard, then you use the continuous rope that goes through the block at the top to pull the sock up. There is no rigging at the top other than the spin halyard and what is already attached to your gennaker. We have an ATN sleeve at the bottom that goes over the rolled up genny and a control line from there through a block that can be led back to the cockpit. We put the ATN sleeve on and set control line, pull up on halyard, pull sock up and launch sail, go for a sail, use continuous rope to pull sock back down over sail and snuff it, lower the spin halyard and put it back in the bag, carefully. Gary Jobson had an article in Cruising world a few months back on this, he suggested just letting the continuous sock rope loop dangle loose when the sail is up but I don't like that I try to tie it off somewhere out of the way. The stuff on your bag might be to make it easier to launch? We don't have that, I just keep it in the bag with the top and bottom accessible. Used to be a good pictorial on Cruising Direct's website on this but they have apparently been taken over by North and their website is gone.
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