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Update, went back to the sailmaker and the sails will now most probably be Hydra Net Radial, radial cut with vertically battened main...

And Pip just posts that she's hit 39 knots....

It's all getting a bit full on.... Pip averaging 24 knots over the last 4 hours.... Conrad puts out good videos. Older, slower...

If this thread goes on much longer, someone will suggest a new mast to get the exact layout you need....

I wouldn't have battens with an overlapping sail. They'll destroy themselves in pretty short order flogging against the rig. Or start...

I'm tending towards going with the 120% .... don't really want to start drilling more holes in the deck or cabin top. The adjusting...

I think you'd be looking at a short separate track in front of the shrouds. Or moving completely to a 3D system. Another thing worth...

See you say it has 100%, then quote an incident where it failed... You cannot just look at the harness and say "this is 100% effective"...

If you're unconscious and in the water you are in big, big trouble.

In my opinion if you don't want the "work" of sailing, just buy a motor boat. Agree re a 120 being better than a high cut 110 though...

I have never met a skipper worthy of the name that delays action on something like a dodgy harness attachment point.

*nearly impossible. You can never, ever completely remove that risk. People get tired, especially at night and make mistakes, unclip...

Harness and "gizmos" are not mutually exclusive.

Sadly MOB from VO70 and VO65 have a bad history of fatality, even when fully crewed by the best offshore pros on the planet. There's a...