Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Water Models / October 2003

My immediate reaction is - with great difficulty!

It's probably woth looking at a basic sailing instruction book but in
principle:

The spinnaker has three corners. the one at the top is connected to a
haliard which sets where it flies, not always at the masthead. The
lines to the other corners are called the guy and the sheet
respectively (on a full size spinnaker they are different ropes and
routed differently). The guy holds the windward end down somwhere near
the bow and is attached on the windward bulwark some way back from the
bow,

The sheet runs all the way back to the lee stern, the often round a
turning block and so to a cockpit winch.

The pole attaches to the mast and to the sheet (it's recommended that
it is clipped over the sheet rather than into the cringle as it makes
it easier to release the sail in a panic). The pole is aligned by  its
end position in a mast track and by an uphaul and downhaul about half
way along the pole.

A well flown spinnaker is a joy to behold, a collapsed spinnaker is
about the best sea anchor known to man.

Have fun

Henry