Baggywrinkles

[Tradewinds]

As per title.

Anybody still 'wear' them (eg as seen on a certain YT channel Sailing Fair Isle)?

Or are they just a throw back to the Hiscock days?

PS Not talking about spreader end chafe protectors but the hairy caterpillar-type/bottlebrush thingies found crawling up a yachts standing rigging.

 

[johnalison]

Not me, but we were amused to hear from our German friends when we were looking at a traditional boat in Wismar that over there they call them ‘millipedes’.

 

[dansaskip]

I used to have a variation - the soft inner core of an old rope wrapped around the aft lowers. It certainly saved the sails chafing when trade wind sailing. At night not always easy to ensure a gap twixt sail and stay when the main is well out.

 

[GHA]

I used to have a variation - the soft inner core of an old rope wrapped around the aft lowers. It certainly saved the sails chafing when trade wind sailing. At night not always easy to ensure a gap twixt sail and stay when the main is well out.

Great idea! Thanx, been waiting for just such a solution. Pipe lagging on the spreaders doesn't look too awful but something soft on the lowers was waiting for a solution. Goose winged down wind it feels like wearing barbed wire just looking at the main resting against them & no way to not have it happen.
Actually was anchored near Fair Isle recently & it just stands out amongst all the boats in the anchorage. One likes to blend in