3. Tape over the hiking stick u-joint.
Fill in the screw hole on the autobailer
What do you mean by shrink wrapping... ?(...) the taping of the blocks especially. I like shrink wrapping (...)
Where can i buy that ?shrink wrap tubing
Anyone? huh...Where can i buy that ?shrink wrap tubing
fsylvestre said:About the adjustable hicking strap, how do you rig that?
MScott said:I have yet to find a worthwhile hiking strap adustment. [...] The thing I can't figure out is, how can you expect a rope-system with no cleats to hold your ass when you are screaming on a planing reach at the top of a wave or you have a big puff on?
I always use a saftey line tied between the rudder-head and the traveler line as a backup for failure of the rudder-lock tab.macwas16 said:...my rudder and tiller went straight to the bottom...
GeoffS said:I've been using the system Dave Olsen describes in the appendix to Dick Tillman's "Laser Sailing for the 1990's" (p. 157, I only have my old copy of the book handy).
I'm solidly in the "100 kilo club", and I've never had the adjuster slip when I've been hiking off the wind. The jamming effect between the double figure-eight knot, the eye-strap and the tail-end of the line seems to be more than adequate. In fact, sometimes when it gets twisted up I can't eaisly release it.
Cheers,
Geoff S.
Merrily said:I'd like to tie an adjustable line onto my hiking strap. The set up in the picture that you attached to the original thread looks like it would work and I'd like to try it, but I don't know how. Is that one piece of line or two? Can you give a verbal description of tying it? I guess the key is the double figure-eight, but I don't know how to do that. Help!
Merrily
49208 said:It's one line, use 3/16" dia (thinner line doesn't bind up enough in the eyes and slips to easily and thicker line doesn't seem to release easy enough)
Start with the knot at the end (I don't think it's a double eight, at least in tech terms, it's a figure 9 knot - see http://www.massey.ac.nz/~sglasgow/nzss/knots.htm for more info - ignore the fact that they are showing the figure 8 and 9 with the line doubled)
Then follow the diagram, tie in the bowline after you have gone thru the hiking strap, take the tail from the bowline and continue on thru the second eye, back to the bowline eye and out thru the starting eye.