What downwind sail for a cruising cat?

[Mark424]

Originally Posted by maxingout

From that point on we went with a double headsail rig using 2 reaching poles that were attached to deck fittings.

Hi Dave, curious why you mounted the poles to the tack rather than the mast like traditional spinnaker/whisker poles. Your Privilege has the advantage of a nose, not sure how that would work with the normal cross beam and gull striker, don't imagine there would be huge longitudinal load on the poles, but enough.

[At Peace]

Originally Posted by 2Hulls

Thanks, Monte. I will try to get a ride with somebody who has one of these to see for myself. In the meantime, send Jen over to our boat to help me douse our chute when it's windy. If the wind gets above 15 I have a very hard time getting ours socked. It is bigger (160 m2) so that's part of it. The sock line has literally lifted me off the tramp a few times. I cannot imagine trying to sock it at 30 kts. Long before then we'd be on genny alone. I'd expect socking the PS vs a conventional chute to be similar. What do you think?

Also, what's the "ram"?

Dave

As a suggestion, I would recommend the use of a snatch block such as
snatch blocks-antal attached to the fore deck to use with the sock control line. This will make your “pull” to raise/lower the sock safer by pulling up from the deck and not lifting yourself into the air.