5 min setup - Spinnakers & ATN tacker - how to fly your spinnaker shorthanded without a pole! just reflecting on our spinnaker use, and it always seems to be...

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we're going to share with you basically

all that there is to share about

Spinnaker's and how we hoist them how we

set them up and how you can get your

spinnaker sailing so one of my very

first videos I ever did was all about

basically making your own Etienne Tucker

that's it in here just wrapped up and

what I'm going to show you is basically

how easy it is to set up a spinnaker

using this now we're not going to be

driving today more than likely we only

going to keep on the one the one bearing

with the with the wind coming from

behind us so we're only ever going to

use the Etienne Tucker line and one line

for the clew at the sail and that is

basically all the lines that we

basically need to run up to the front of

the deck and we'll show you how we get

our spinnaker up now so the first thing

we're going to do is basically our Genoa

and the reason I want to do that is

basically if I put the spinning crop now

sometimes you can get a bit a bit messy

up there so if you're working on deck

prefer to get the genera in to be honest

so I'm just gonna get that in now and

obviously just bring you genera in is

bit tension and then pull your firm line

quick tidy up and then we get our lines

on step 2 is to put the ATM tacker

around your filled generic boy fill

headsail the look clip on and then this

this line here this needs to go down to

your deck so the way that we've done it

is I mean this is a bit bit long line

here I could probably reduce this quite

a lot but the way we've done is we've

got this block here and all that does is

that enables you to move the box after

things spinning up and down the filled

headsail yeah and then that basically

just needs to be cleat it off to you one

of your one of your cleats and then

obviously you can just adjust it by

doing that yeah it's your house

take one how he is top of spinnaker clip

keep ours in our bag in the four cabin

basically just because then it can all

just come out of this bag as we voiced

it up

No

yeah so now you need to take the tack

onto the ATN taco

ours is a symmetrical spinnaker so we've

got a green and a red side we always put

our green side to RIT and Tucker just

preference

and that's that so the lines that we put

on go on to the Reds part of the

symmetrical spinnaker which is basically

a bowline only not on there and the

really important thing just to mention

is that when you're doing your lines to

make sure they go outside of absolutely

everything we made that mistake once and

we won't make it again how you learn and

then they go all the way back to the

back of the boat the stern and see you

back there so the next part you need to

do is basically you need to take the

sheathing line through well - you need

to take it to a winch on our boat our

winches are quite far aft so we need to

put a block in somewhere just to be able

to bring it back to the winch and that's

all what these blocks are here here for

now remember outside everything so it

needs to go over over the stanchions and

through the block now I do like to keep

all the rope bunched up here and the

sole reason for that is because I don't

I don't want to go on the rope to go

over the side I know we're not motoring

anything like that but it just keeps it

tired here I think now you have to have

quite a bit of line on here because it's

spinnaker gonna go wipe right out the

front of the boat so a pencil long line

so let's get the spinnaker up

the wind dropped so we took the mainsail

down see just so we could get the

spinning and flying properly and we

could show it on camera

yeah so that's so that's basically how

we set up our spinnaker so you saw the

little steps we had involved there it

can get a bit ownerís the first time you

ever set the spinning crop but once you

kind of used to what you're doing and

where people need to be it's not too bad

and obviously if you could the more you

use it the more you remember how to rig

everything up that's the most difficult

thing especially for us you know

sometimes we have rigged it for a while

it takes a little while to kind of jog

the memory and remember where we put in

things so are asymmetrical spinnaker

sits a bit further out than from what a

sari are symmetrical spinnaker sits a

bit further out than more an

asymmetrical wood and that's just to do

with the cut of it we are doing roughly

around three knots across well through

the water bit further across the ground

got a bit tied with this but it just

means that we can actually tear a bit

longer a bit longer downwind rather than

motoring like a lot of the other boats

have seemed to be given up sailing now

yeah as long as we keep us bit a bit of

speed over the ground then we should be

alright so that's basically our you

Spinnaker's it's now what we're gonna do

is be basic in the drop off spinnaker

and obviously you know if you have any

issues or if it's getting a bit windy

this is basically all you do so

obviously ours is in a sock or only

known as a cruising - so basically all

we're gonna do is we're gonna release

the release the sheet and yeah get it in

so when you ready

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and then are we going to do now is we're

going to drop the Harriet and put it

into the four hatch

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