Montypals: OK, just took a sail inventory, and a look at the boat. The last few months have been about rigging, launching, and learning how to sail with the stock sails. Nice. Bob Becker had quite the sail inventory when he sold me the boat. Now, the working jib is a Pineapple, and the plastic hanks were worn out. I bought new ones for about 5 bucks total and installed them. Nice! The drifter looks to be about a 160, and it has standard hanks. So, it should be easy to deal with in the correct air, because it just hanks on. There are nice jib cars and tracks on the combings aft of the shrouds, so that is where the sheets go. Can't wait to try that. Now, it turns out there is also a spinnaker! Anybody used one of those with an M15? It looks like it is just a bit short, and is not supposed to go all the way up the mast, but just below. Looking at my sailing books, and at the boat itself it looks like I am just about rigged for it, but not quite. There is a fitting about 1.5 feet above the forestay attachment on the mast that looks like a block could go there for the halyard. There are blocks on the stern pulpit that look like they accept the sheets/guy, and I have a whisker pole that may double as a spinnaker pole. Only thing that appears to be missing is a topping lift for the pole. I'll have to look that over. In any event, I would love to know if any of you have flown a spinnaker with the M15, and what I might need to do. Daniel
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Daniel Rich