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The word “attached” means attached in such a manner that the shock cord neither moves nor is adjustable. The shock cord running through the cleat is not “attached”.
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Five of us in Aberdeen in Scotland have bought these new devices and none of us can make them work as well as you describe. Are laser spars the same in the UK as the USA?
The sleeve seems to "seize". It is easy enough to pull the clew out, but when letting the clew off, the sleeve seems to grip the boom and sit still unless you give the sail a tug. I have tried sliding it up and down the boome with the clew of the sail attached but the clew outhaul slack to make sure its not friction in the rope that is the problem. It seems to slide easily enough if the clew is rotated slightly, but if clew is sitting vertically, as you would imagine would be its natural postion, the slide then grips the boom.
Any advice from across the waters?
The word “attached” means attached in such a manner that the shock cord neither moves nor is adjustable. The shock cord running through the cleat is not “attached”.[/quote]
"Here's the inboard end of the inhaul. The rope tail is whipped onto the two ends of the elastic. You may as well use the cleat for something."
I think this setup is illegal in two ways. First of all it is not entirely made of shockcord since "the rope tail is whipped onto the two ends of the elastic." Second, the rope tail "runs through the cleat" and is therefore both movable and adjustable, and thus not "attached."
thats how my shockcord is "attached" to my boom cleat, it just loops through itself (minus the whole rope thing in the pic above), and crosses under the boom, and hooks into the clew. Is that legal?
its a very nice setup, got it from Colie Sails, MOJO package
thats what I thought, thanks
now how if I kept the same basic arrangement, but instead of hooking the hooks to the clew of the sail, I hooked them to the new clew sleeve, or permently hog-ringed them to the clew sleeve? I would assume it to be legal
..The rules are clear, we all know this => ~ "Nothing, that is permitted extra by the classrules, is allowed".
It's because the blocks for the outhaul control line are tied to one side of the rig. Only way to avoid that is to have the control lines running directly down the centreline of the boom and mast. Which you can't.However now I find that the outhaul is passively pulled in more on one tack than the other. Anyone come across this problem? Chris Hawkes
For those using the metal sleeve with a bungee inhaul:
Where on the sleeve are you attaching the bungee? There's not much room to tie anything to, and the loop on the hook isn't big enough to get a nice largish bungee through.