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29er-ish gennaker wanted


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once again, sorry squid for posting stuff in the wrong places but it is alot busier here.

WANTED- a small gennaker, preferably a tad smaller than a 29er one, for a piedy.

cheers

jordan

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If its for a piedy a 29er chute will be way way to small. The piedy gennakers used to be 2 rig kites from the 12footers if i remember correctly. But then they had to get beefed up a bit to take the extra load of the weight of the boat etc. 29er kites are tiny!

 

Overall mast height of 29er is 6.25 metres and they run a fractional chute about 1.5m down on that.

The spinnaker sheave box on a class legal piedy is 8.932m above deck level. With a 1.2m prod that will need a luff around 10metres.

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Ya dont want to go too small otherwise you will issues sending it in under 30 knots...

 

Mines a good size not sure if it is purpose built or off something else..

 

As Marshy said it would want to be reinforced if its off a skiff as the Piedy is a fair bit heavier.

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The white one xtreme gennaker is a custom North sails chute, Absolute glamour, Built it for Yosemite sam and then when Jimmy sold boat we sold a few sails to our flatmates who owned your boat. The Yellow gennaker is an old 12 kite.

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PM Twitchy - he has (or had) the old (brand new) genny off Black Fun for sale at a reasonable price. - Luff is about 9.4m from memory. Its indestructable and should be about the right size for a peidy. Its almost brand new and its black...and a lot bigger than a 29er genny.

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