Now that the spinnaker is dialed in, I thought I’d have some fun and share some of the setup I have going on Althea. First up is the cockpit. I spent the most time preping for the SHTP upgrading Althea’s rigging. If my qualifier (Sitka->SF) taught me anything, it’s that a main and a 120% gennoa can’t do it all. I added secondary winches, and a forespar pole on the deck. Installed a fixed pole toggle for the pole, and cut holes for a Spinnaker halyard, and toping lift on the mast. Starting from just having a main and a fore sail, that’s a whole lot of added lines. It was neat setting it all up this evening and seeing all the lines running fair and everything put to work back in the cockpit. Attached is an image of what’s what. Hopefully it doesn’t get compressed too much and you can read the annotations. I’m pretty happy so far! .brett s/v Althea ** Hopefully I’ll have the time to do a series of these, showing how things are arranged and highlighting what’s working and what’s not. Sent from Iridium Mail & Web.