Second training part two

After tacking upwind, it was time to prepare the launch of the spinnaker. For this I locked the tiller, put the tangoon in position and then started to prefeed the tack. Once this was done I beared away on  to a broad reach and pulled up the spinnaker.

Once the spinnaker was up, I practised several gybes with the spinnaker.

My first two attemps didnt go very smooth. I gybed the main first and then went to the foredeck to get the tangoon on to the other side. I then had to find out that I didnt release the downhaul and I also had the sheet to tight. The result was that I could not attach the pole on the new side and had to release the downhaul before clipping in the pole. You can see this in my video (the difficulties with the pole start around 42 sec):

We then tried a second approach that worked better:
This time I went on a dead run and eased the sheet much more. I also didnt forget to release the downhaul this time:) After locking the tiller, I went to the foredeck and changed the tangoon.
On the way back, I tightened the downhaul again and adjusted the sails. Once this was done, I could  gybe the mainsail. Here is a video of this too:

 Too soon it was time to get the spinnaker down and head home to the port.

For dropping the spinnaker I unfurled the Genoa and started to ease the foreguy/line that controlles the tangoon, so I could start taking in the foot of the spinnaker. Once I had the foot, I  released the haliyard and packed the spinnaker in its bag. For the next time, I would release the haliyard a bit before the drop, so it would not require that much force to pull it down (you can see this in the video at 40sec).