Gybing an Asymmetric Spinnaker - It’s Easy!!!

April 21, 2022 by Sailing Tips | Language: EN Play Time: 00:01:17 | SAILING YOUTUBERS

In this video we demonstrate how to gybe an asymmetric spinnaker.

We are demonstrating on a Farrier-designed F-82R trimaran, but the process would be similar on any bowsprit-equipped sport boat, and even a heavier monohull where you're launching from the bow.

You can set up an asymmetric spinnaker for an outside gybe, with the lazy sheet around the outside of the luff, where the clew flies around the outside like a windsurfer.

Or you can set up for an inside gybe, with the lazy sheet between the luff and the forestay, and the clew goes through the inside much like a tack. I’ve done both many times and find inside gybes to be much more reliable in all conditions, so that’s all I ever do now on any boat.

The first thing you want to do is make sure the lazy sheet is clear, and not caught under the jib or anything.

Then you want to center the traveller so the boom doesn’t have as far to go.

Then you ease the active sheet and simultaneously pull the lazy sheet.

If you have a bowsprit, start turning the boat when the clew is around the forestay.

If you don’t have a bowsprit, it helps to have a crew member run the clew back to the shrouds on the new side, and to delay turning the boat until the clew is at the shrouds.

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