Joe, I have frequently flown a spinnaker while single handing my M15. It requires some planning and experience flying a spinnaker with a crew. I launch and retrieve the spinnaker while standing in the cabin or just in front of it. I can only doe this with my remote steering working as at takes some time to get it all together and verfied before launch. My M15 will not hold a course long enough to get it all together and still control all of the lines. The spinnaker on the M15 is quite small compared to a masthead M17 spinnaker so if I were you I would take Judy's advice and start with an undersized cruising chute to start. The M15 with it's small spinnaker can be quite a handful for a single hander when the gusts get up to 10 kts. It is lots of fun and I think you should give it a go. Thanks Doug Kelch M15 G #310 "Seas the Day" ________________________________ From: Joe Murphy <seagray@embarqmail.com> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, November 7, 2011 10:42 AM Subject: M_Boats: cruisng chutes I have been looking at the possibility of a Cruising Chute and found that almost all the discussions relate to 2 or more crew handling them. But these discussions seem to center on larger sailboats. Does anyone have any 'real life' advice on the use of these single handed on an M17? Joe SeaFrog M17