[sailingdog]

Originally Posted by eMKay

I have this:


It has a short line and a plastic u-shaped thingy attached to the tack,

The line is a tack downhaul and the plastic thing is a tack sleeve that is designed to go around a furled headsail usually, and allows the asymetric spinnaker to work much like a oversized genoa. The ATN Tacker is a commercially sold version of that plastic cuff.

two long lines attached to the clew, the head is up in the sock of course.

The two long lines are the sheets, and they go around the front of the forestay, and the asym is basically gybed around the outside of the forestay.

On the boat there is a block on the port side of the bow pulpit,

Probably for the tack downhaul.

and two stand up blocks near the stern, one on each side.

for the asym spinnaker sheets.

Now, I know the head gets attached to the spinnaker halyard, and the sock hoisted. The P.O. showed me how to work the sock, but I forgot what he told me about where everything else attaches.