seamonkey said:I've been outa lasering for awhile,,but am setting up a boat.......so I'm wondering what people have developed for clew downhauls?
Criteria..........1-holds clew very tight to boom,so as to maximize leach tightening ability........2--slides easily for adjustment,while under load..........3-..reliable (will not let go),,,,,,,,,,,but 4-easy to release quickly
are there rollerclew-tie gizmo's out there now??.............................thanks
seamonkey said:has anyone tried these?
seamonkey said:has anyone developed a 'rollerball' clewdownhaul yet?--is there something that would make this illegal?---just need to find some tough little beads with a 3mm hole in them!
I was last lasering about when the new rules came in,,but thought this approach would be fairly OBVIOUS!!--I suppose this approach is too SIMPLE for there to be any commercial interest in developing it,,,,but has anyone seen this approach yet?
While the two you mention above may be the most friction free, neither are class approved for racing (and don't seem to be on the class's radar screen for approval at this time).LooserLu said:I think the best is this one: The JC-tiedown
http://www.drlaser.org/ILCA/images/JC-tiedown.jpg
but also very cool is the one from TLF-wabbit:
http://www.laserforum.org/showpost.php?p=5820&postcount=24
The last quoted reply from wabbit is from the same thread (at TLF politics-section) where a discription from drLaser to the JC-tiedown is. And it seems to me that already a member (from the US West Coast) of this Forum already testet it in Bitez and could tell us more of that JC-tidown-sleeve, or am I wrong?
Ciao
LooserLu
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