Okay, lots of questions to answer....

1. Would the midpole snuffer work well for the 5.2.... honestly I have no idea. I would think it might be tougher for solo sailing because you have a tack line that pulls the tack (front corner) of the spinnaker out to the end of the pole rather than it already being there.

2. As for the bridal supports for the spin pole, I did drill the bows and refill them with epoxy and then rerilled a smaller hole. Then just tied a figure 8 knot on the backside of the hull and a loop of any high tech low stretch line on the inside. The bridals are all just a low stretch line, I am not sure what it is, it came with my pole and works very well. To tighten it down each time I have a truckers hitch tied in the line and can really crank down on it.

3. My hulls are reinforced, when my decks were off this winter I added bulk heads, and extra stringers. Plus I have an extra set of hulls if I break one.

4. I originally had the the older style mast and i feel like it would work just fine. I ran the spin on it or a while. But now I am running the newer style mast, and it is working very well... but I have no clue whether it works better than the old one.



Nacra477, I hope that your pole you are getting works well, i think it should the midpole snuffer shouldn't be to hard to figure out and I have heard that you can still rig it up as a single line to pull but it would be more complicated.