Hey all:
A sailing friend suggested I rig up a whisker pole for the jib while downwinding. He's an old Navy guy, and suggested a practical and simple broom handle with a couple of aluminum rods sticking out the ends, one to go in the jib clew cringle and the other to go in the fairlead by the mast..... or so he thought. I don't have any kind of hardware by the mast that one could insert a whisker pole rod, only the halyard cleats by the cabin aft edge. I suppose I could use the little holes in the cleat sides for this purpose...
What, and exactly where, would one place here? Would a simple little fairlead attached to the deck near the mast suffice? Would something attached to the mast be better?
Thanks in advance,
Carlos