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I was hoping there would be someone out there who would have any pictures/map of how you rig up your spinnaker setup on a Noelex 22... I am looking at getting mine up and running and not sure of cleat , block and line positioning.

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I don't think I have any pictures.

 

Lead blocks and cleats on top of the coamings, just forward of the helmsman.

 

Sheet turning blocks were mounted vertically on the very aft side of the cockpit coamings.

 

We had tweakers on the side decks, straight out from the mast step, which lead back to the cockpit. The windward one was always on, the leeward one was always* off.

 

Single ended self launching pole, topping lift to the end. No downhaul on the pole. Parrot beak on mine was downward, which I prefer, some others like them opening upward.

 

One thing we found : with the topping lift to the end, if we set it with the pole stowed along the boom, it was almost perfect without adjustment upon hoisting. Made life just a little bit easier at the top mark.

 

Another thing that makes life easier is to run kite halyard, topping lift, and Pole launcher all to the same side, with all the other lines, halyards etc on the other side.

 

As dumb as it sounds, I have raced on boats where nothing had been thought out, and even the owner didn't know which rope went where.

 

* mostly, but there were the odd exceptions, like a light flat run, or a survival broad reach

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Hey thanks for the advice that all makes some sense i was just wondering about the pole though since you never had a downhaul on the poe did it not have a tendency to lift up under load?

 

Do you recall how long the sheets were roughly?

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With the tweakers being at side deck level, and in line with the mast, the windward sheet comes up at such a steep angle that the pole never skied.

 

Although it certainly could if the tweaker cleat let go somehow.

 

In a very savage gust the pole would actually dip slightly, stretching the topping lift. Which by chance would also allow the kite to twist slightly, which may not be a bad thing.

 

One thing I just remembered, between the turning block and the lead block, we also had one of those clam style cleats mounted vertically on the top of the coaming, just forward of the turning block. We would use both this cleat and the camcleat at the lead, reaching in any decent breeze. This meant that I could move the pole forward to the forestay a few mm at a time without fear of it all going wrong.

 

On one occasion we did forget to release this for a gybe, which caused a moment of concern when the sheethand pulled it and it wouldn't go out again.

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Actually where are you? Plenty of N22s at New Plymouth, Manukau, and around Christchurch somewhere, plus numerous others racing in mixed fleets all over the place

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