Dangly pole driven spinaker?

I've been at the builders all day today and the plan is for a complete carbon deck which is why I don't want to complicate it with having holes cut in it. If I were to assym it I' mount a pole unit on the deck under the forestay, like the V=twin device, which sadly is big big to transfer to this boat. We're thinking RS200 style system as it's easy for the builder to comprehend.
But I'm musing about the dangly pole idea which would give potentially better options on a dead run in light air.

As far as I can see, so long as there is no forestay in the way, there is no problem with this.

I'm trying to set up an assy on the Blaze, a fixed pole is the easy answer, instead of pulling the pole out you use the same mechanism to pull the tack to the end of the pole. I found a bag very tricky but might try using the downhaul patch instead of trying to haul the sail down with a sheet.

Originally posted by 423zero Any reason you can't fit a big Genoa with a Furler and a jib stick ?

No reason really other than weight and clumsy gubbins slowing me up wind and I'd look like some lead miner gone retarded?

Originally posted by davidyacht Symmetric or Assymetric? With an assymetrc kite I guess the problem is that the tack of the kite is likely to be forward of the forestay, so the pole and clew could not be pulled through. If you were symmetric you could look at a twin pole self launching system, but I suspect that you would consider a symmetric kite to belong to the Ark.

I'd consider anything, not limiting myself to assym or sym, I just can't get my head around syms as I've only ever had a go with one once and that was a disaster and I wasn't trying to helm the boat as well.

So do you mean I'd need twin dangly poles, what happens to the one not in use I'm wondering, actually thinking about it, that could possibly make sense, no maybe not, no it couldn't work with the pole still attached, no it's got to be some ort of ballooney shaped oversize jib and to function drivers side of the forestay.


Edited by iGRF - 20 Oct 18 at 4:45pm