{"id":11658,"date":"2010-06-18T01:01:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T06:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=11658"},"modified":"2010-06-18T01:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T06:12:05","slug":"you-dont-need-the-hottest-boat-and-socking-the-spinnaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/you-dont-need-the-hottest-boat-and-socking-the-spinnaker\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don&#8217;t Need The Hottest Boat and Socking the Spinnaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Contest 48-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Contest-48-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"untitled-2.jpg\" width=\"557\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We offer the photo above as proof that you don&#8217;t need the latest and greatest to enjoy cruising. This is a 30 year old Compass 48 owned by a Dutch couple we recently met. They are surfing along in a fresh northerly, having a wonderful sail. But what happens when the wind goes forward and the two of them need to douse the chute?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Conest-48-83.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Conest-48-83.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Conest-48-83.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were hoping the breeze would stay aft so we could get more photos, but as they headed south the wind started to go forward.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Conest-48-90.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Conest-48-90.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Conest-48-90.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marianne and Jerard use the same dousing technique that worked over the years for the two of us.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Conest-48-95.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Conest-48-95.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Conest-48-95.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Run off before the wind, ease the main out, and collapse the spinnaker in the lee of the mainsail.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Conest-48-105.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Conest-48-105.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Conest-48-105.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This makes pulling the sock over the sail a lot easier than if the spinnaker is filled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We offer the photo above as proof that you don&#8217;t need the latest and greatest to enjoy cruising. This is <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/you-dont-need-the-hottest-boat-and-socking-the-spinnaker\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}