Spinnaker #1 (the small one) fits the existing setup perfectly! Three corners fit along the house, and the fourth gets pulled towards the fence corner.
Spinnaker #2 (the larger one) is too large. The foot of the sail doesn't get pulled tight along the side of the house, and the side towards the fence doesn't pull the sail away from the house, so it rubs against the roof. So, I have to do some modifications...
First, I'm going to have to make two new anchor points on the fence line to pull the spinnaker away from the house. Second, I have to trim the spinnaker. I originally kept both sail numbers thinking that would look good, and it did. However, that made it just a bit too long along that side of the house. So, the panel along the new, second foot needs to be trimmed off.
What I'll need to do is:
- Remove the leather chafing protection
- Cut the panel off with the second set of sail numbers
- Trim the clews
- Glue the new clews to the trimmed spinnaker
- Sew the new clews
- Sew new stay tapes
- Re-sew the chafing protection
It sucks to have to re-do the clews and the foot for this spinnaker, as well as make up a new anchor system, but I think this will work out in the long run. Having a larger pool shade cover that covers essentially the entire pool will be good to have.
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