[Rhodes22-list] Whisker Pole Rigging - simple suggestions for gentle-breeze late afternoons?

[Peter Nyberg]

Larry,

I don’t know if you’ve been on the list long enough to remember Rummy, a long-time list member and Rhodes sailer and a much beloved character. I think it is safe to say that he was in the KISS school of sailing (much like Stan in that regard I suppose).  In past discussions of whisker poles, I recall that he was an advocate of using an extendable boat hook.  I’m a bit fuzzy on the details, but I think the tip was put through the grommet at the clew of the jib, and the handle was jammed against the grab rail and the forward lower shroud.  

I can see how something like this might work, right up until the moment when it stops working.  But, if you’re careful, and wouldn’t be too upset by suddenly turning a boat hook into scrap metal, this could be a solution.

—Peter
 

> On May 26, 2020, at 9:07 PM, Larry Gioia via Rhodes22-list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:
> 
> Those both sound like great solutions for sailing the boat hard downwind.
> I mostly need one for really light breezes of 5-8 knots, going downwind on the lake as the the wind dies off late in the afternoon.  Does anyone have any simple non-installed suggestions they use for that?  A non-R22 friend of mine said just get an extending camping pole of some sort. 
> Without one I tend to do broad reaches, tacking downwind.
> Larrys/v Language of LoveLake George, NY
> s/v <As yet unnamed>Keystone Lake, Tampa, FL