Hi Mary,

I am reasonably certain the spinnaker I have is, in fact, a stock H16 spinnaker from HobieCat USA. The 2005 Hobie catalog lists the part# for the sail as 20999002 and the link to it is here:

http://www.hobiecat.com/support/pdfs/22_25.pdf

The link shows the available spinnakers and the option to purchase one with, and rigged for, a mid-pole snuffer.

My problem is that I have to add/make the snuffer and add the patches to my spinnaker to allow this. It looks very straight-forward but I`d still like some advice on the patches.

As an aside, my initial choice was a (furling) Hooter setup that I first saw in one of Rick`s videos. But, when I stumbled across an unused H16 spinnaker, pole and hardware (with sail colors that match my boat) for about $500.00...Well, I didn`t have the will-power to pass it up.


Dave