Cruising with a spinnaker

I too have been looking at a Spinnaker pole... however I'm a visual learner.... I don't seem to have everything I need to make this work right... dose anyone have any close up pictures as to how it should look and work... would really be appreciated... thanks

Spinnakers seem to have a bad name in the cruising business.  From the beginning, when the racing yacht “Sphinx” hauled up her “acre” of headsail, the spinnaker (Sphinx’s acre) has been considered a racing rag.  For the cruiser, it can be the sail that makes those dog days of summer quite delightful.  Sailing off the wind, when it’s down to less than 8 kts, can be a sloppy time but, with a ‘chute, you can be trucking along.  Cruising chutes, although easier to set, don’t have the area and are not that effective in very light air and they don’t require a pole.   The spinnaker pole is a multiuse item.  At anchor, you can tether your dinghy off it so that it doesn’t keep bumping the hull all night, it’s a better whisker pole than the one with whiskers, and as a clothes line it beats the lifelines by keeping the clothes in the breeze.  Don’t leave home without one.