Hi Wouter

The pole is 3 metres from main beam to pulley.

I posted all the important measurements like this on the VMCA web site back in 2001 in the hope that when Mosquito sailors in Australia started rigging spinnakers there would be some consistency, and that we would avoid crazy experiments with the corresponding broken masts (etc) and bad publicity. It took longer than I expected for the spinnaker to take off here (my fault because I didn't push it enough) but now it has, the simple rules about halyard height, pole length and sheeting position are working out well. By an amazing coincidence the South Africans are working to almost the same parameters, except that I think they like to play around with the sheeting position.

Tim