Generally more useful when running deep into a mark, and the kite is rolled well out to weather. Kite must be recovered quickly as it flags away from old sheet on forestay and guy. Pole is removed, boat gybed and then halyard blown. Generally more useful when coming into the mark at a higher angle.į) Dropping on the old windward side. Pole removed, boat gybes and kite is dropped into jib. Generally used when coming into the mark at a higher angle.
Also, I would hazard that it only really works on deep runs - otherwise you have to haul the whole kite around the forestay.Į) Dropping on the old leeward side. I would hazard a guess that above Etchells/J24-ish sizes, it isn't commonly used. Not really used on larger boats - especially in any breeze, as the kite isn't in the shadow of anything. Generally used on symetirical dinghies with bags (rather than a chute). Pole comes off, kite is retreived using guy/lazy sheet. Never heard of anybody letterboxing this one - probably too slow, and you would end up trawling.ĭ) To windward. Kite flags horizontally between pole and sheet, and is recovered (quickly!!) before it drops into the sea. Variations on the above: letterbox it, and retrieve the kite between main and boom.Ĭ) Ease guy to forestay, tighten sheet, and dump halyard. Keeps all the corners attached to respective lines, so that someone doesn't have to go to the bow to retrieve the old guy. Generally a bad idea to let the pole hit the forestay too hard. The kite flags away behind main, and is recovered using the sheet/lazy guy.ī) Let the guy run until the kite is flagging behind main, as above. Ways of taking a symmetrical spinnaker down:Ī) The guy snap shackle is tripped, either by standing on the pulpit, or, on a larger boat climbing to the end of the spinnaker pole (see start of "Wind").
#Letterbox drops free#
Feel free to shoot all this down in flames if I've made an obvious howler, or you've done something like a windward drop on a maxi.
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