E32-200 Whisker Pole Experiments

With the purchase of my boat I inherited an under-sized whisker pole that I subsequently sold. Nevertheless I wanted to learn how to set a pole for a headsail as part of a wing-on-wing downwind, tradewind, get-from-California-to-Hawaii-and-back journey. On Craigslist I could not find any whisker poles but I found a spinnaker pole for sale that was the right size for my boat for a good price ($225) and I bought it.

The pole itself was beat up and one fitting did not match my boat. One...