Trapseat Update

Hi,

After perusing your site, I was still unable to find any photographs of the trapseat spinakker. Can you post a link to a picture, if would.

Cheers!

Thanks for the reminder as I just remembered I need to create a Trapseat Match Racing / Spinnaker section of the web site. Sorry for no pictures I will get this section going now so you and others cas see this spinnaker info.

Here is an email from the inventor of the Trapseat and the Spinnaker as some had asked for the exact size of the spinnaker and I was a bit way off.

THE EMAIL:

Measure your spinnaker, luff, foot, and report it to your e-mailers. It is not 400 sq. ft. its more like 300. Mine is getting fixed, but I think it to be 25-ft. luff and just under 15-ft. foot. Its a tri-radial cut and is flatter then most mono-hull spinnakers. This is a symmetrical spinnaker, meaning it has the same cut on both sides. It’s for running deep downwind and not reaching much because of the size. In winds past 15 knots, one must sail almost straight downwind using both hulls or its pitchpole city. Reaching on a 16 with a spinnaker that big will submerge the leeward hull in a flash and smaller reaching spinnakers tend not to add much performance to the 16 over the current standard jib and main set-up. Of course a flat top main will also enhance the 16's performance much more than a small reaching spinnaker.