Custom solid spinn-chute

I have tried an assy kite on the Blaze, bloody brilliant when it works but launch and recovery is difficult without dedicated systems. I can manage it on the Spice in the light but I'm handicapped on the Blaze by not being allowed to drill for fittings (not complaining, I don't really want to irrevocably alter the boat) so everything has to be jury rigged to some extent. I got a chute arrangement working from ½" ally tube last summer but, not surprisingly, it wasn't strong enough and failed. Might try a bucket again but still use a downhaul recovery system (when I first tried it I recovered from the clew).

Originally posted by Daniel Holman I think glass or carbon moulding is fine just for the very front then mesh thereafter. Like my old mirror 😀

Waste pipe is very very heavy too, as others have already said weight in the bow is a killer. Especially when you add potential weight of water filling the chute. You will likely be better moulding a solid chute out of glass until you are in the cockpit then going for a mesh bag to finish it.off. That way as least the solid part of the pipe and be bonded into the ribs you may have t cut in to.

Hurricane SX and a few other multihulls use solid fibreglass chutes.

Originally posted by Sam.Spoons I don't see any advantage in rigid pipe over a mesh sock

There's a pretty big one if you are going through a buoyancy tank...