Checked my info on J/36''s sail areas. J/Boats brochure states 1000 sq'' for the
spinnaker. Though I haven''t taken out my tape measure, our I measurement is 44'' and J is 14. After seeing the way it drapes on the forestay in a typical Long Island Sound summer afternoon, our chute has to be closer to 1000 than to 500 aquare feet. Have daydreamed about a masthead chute, but the one we have has pulled us up to 13 knots, and, as suggested, we don''t want to pretzle the top 12 feet of the mast, either. Now, about those pole jaws...