Holly Mackerel what a HOT cat~!!! Looks just like mine! Oh yea, it is mine <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />....

A few suggestions.... you may want your basket about 1 foot further out.... this will help avoid your spin halyard from getting twisted up with your jib when furling (or unfurling).


I get around this by tying a slip knot in the retrevial line (on deck)once it is all the way in the bag. The grommet in my tramp grabs this knot and stops the line. Then i can pull the halyard very tight and take out any slack, but it is 2 extra steps that would be avoided by moving the basket out more. I may move it one day... but that requires drilling more holes in my pole... and adding new weak points for the fiberglass to break.


You MAY want to angle your basket downward to reduce windage.. but that means you can only drop your spin from 1 side... i currently can drop on either side.

Also… a note about your retrieval line… I used to have 3 lines: a tack line, a halyard and a retrieval line… I now have a continuous halyard / retrieval line. It saves me a lot of hassle as my retreval would always have a knot in it when raising and cause a jam and or my halyard would get a knot in it during dousing.. I always had to throw a line in the water to stretch it out before I could raise/lower my spin. I ended up getting 85’ of real thin line and ran it as both halyard / retrieval line. There are 2 small blocks and a ring on my tramp that I run the lines through to keep it from jamming up.

Below is a friends tramp with the same set up. You can see 1 small block in the middle attached through a hiking strap grommet. The 2nd block (hidden) is at the end of the strap and the ring is on the other strap end. For some reason the ring works better than a 3rd block. This was copied from the Tornado setup.