https://www.uksailmakers.com/2020/04/23/2020-4-23-how-to-do-a-mexican-spinnaker-takedown-or-the-kiwi-drop/ Sail with Confidence! Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:05:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.uksailmakers.com/2020/04/23/2020-4-23-how-to-do-a-mexican-spinnaker-takedown-or-the-kiwi-drop/#comment-536 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:05:07 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=157#comment-536 Our boat is a Bavaria 42 with asymmetric pole and gennaker with a sock I guess the problem our boat has is our Ball is quite BIG (100 square meters) and if we don’t lower the sock to depower the ball, this can easily be messed up by simply gathering / collecting the ball barely by the foredesk. Any thoughts?

]]> https://www.uksailmakers.com/2020/04/23/2020-4-23-how-to-do-a-mexican-spinnaker-takedown-or-the-kiwi-drop/#comment-116 Sat, 25 Apr 2020 08:34:21 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=157#comment-116 Call it the Mexican or what ever you like. I’m an Aussie and we were doing Gybe drops nearly 40 years ago with symmetrical kites on conventional poles. With due respect to Buddy Melges he certainly didn’t come up with the idea and I certainly cant claim to have invented it.
cheers
PeteB

]]> https://www.uksailmakers.com/2020/04/23/2020-4-23-how-to-do-a-mexican-spinnaker-takedown-or-the-kiwi-drop/#comment-327 Sat, 25 Apr 2020 08:34:21 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=157#comment-327 Call it the Mexican or what ever you like. I’m an Aussie and we were doing Gybe drops nearly 40 years ago with symmetrical kites on conventional poles. With due respect to Buddy Melges he certainly didn’t come up with the idea and I certainly cant claim to have invented it.
cheers
PeteB

]]> https://www.uksailmakers.com/2020/04/23/2020-4-23-how-to-do-a-mexican-spinnaker-takedown-or-the-kiwi-drop/#comment-115 Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:00:17 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=157#comment-115 Helge, that is an asymmetrical spinnaker, as opposed to a symmetrical spinnaker that you are talking about with a spinnaker pole attached to the mast. The asym is similar to a genaker, but flown from a bow sprit, and roughly the same size as a regular spinnaker. You can do the same maneuver with a symmetric spinnaker, you just lose the pole just before you gybe. Otherwise it is basically the same.

]]> https://www.uksailmakers.com/2020/04/23/2020-4-23-how-to-do-a-mexican-spinnaker-takedown-or-the-kiwi-drop/#comment-114 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:42:15 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=157#comment-114 Hellow Adam.
You call it a spinnaker drop, but as I se the illustrations, it is a genaker drop. And good the same, at a spinnacer pole would be jammed by the foresail during the gype.
But maybe the genaker now is so prevalent, that it has overtaken the spinnakers name?
Kind Regards, Helge Dreyer.

]]> https://www.uksailmakers.com/2020/04/23/2020-4-23-how-to-do-a-mexican-spinnaker-takedown-or-the-kiwi-drop/#comment-326 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:42:15 +0000 https://uksailmakers.wpengine.com/?p=157#comment-326 Hellow Adam.
You call it a spinnaker drop, but as I se the illustrations, it is a genaker drop. And good the same, at a spinnacer pole would be jammed by the foresail during the gype.
But maybe the genaker now is so prevalent, that it has overtaken the spinnakers name?
Kind Regards, Helge Dreyer.

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