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FullCircle

FullCircle

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Went out on Mr Solenes New (to him) Squib as crew for forthcoming season.
An incredible cats cradle of string and self launching spinnaker poles, and barber haulers (coarse) and barber haulers(fine) and Jib halllaird tensioners that work different to jib halliard tension. Lets not mention jib cunningham(new one on me).
Elasticated spinnaker halliard anyone? Or even elasticated pole downhaul?
So, with all that string a mess in the front end of the cockpit , perfect for tripping up and confusing the Squib novice.

No rig tension to speak of, and set the pole high for kite reaching (whattt?)
Don't worry about backstay tension, do it from the front. Doesn't that move CofE forward????
Apparently you can launch the kite from impossible places, danged if I can see it at the moment.


Anyway, a thoroughly frustrating enjoyable cock-up from start to finish, including not quite arriving back on the mooring.Ahem.


Waved at Dan Tribe on Traigh, who was very generously sailing from Burnham to Bridgemarsh to deliver a length of furling section for my Walker Bay experiment.

Ahh, yes. Also, I need different clothing etc for dinghies. Wet little buggers they are.
 
FullCircle said:
Went out on Mr Solenes New (to him) Squib as crew for forthcoming season.
An incredible cats cradle of string and self launching spinnaker poles, and barber haulers (coarse) and barber haulers(fine) and Jib halllaird tensioners that work different to jib halliard tension. Lets not mention jib cunningham(new one on me).
Elasticated spinnaker halliard anyone? Or even elasticated pole downhaul?
So, with all that string a mess in the front end of the cockpit , perfect for tripping up and confusing the Squib novice.

No rig tension to speak of, and set the pole high for kite reaching (whattt?)
Don't worry about backstay tension, do it from the front. Doesn't that move CofE forward????
Apparently you can launch the kite from impossible places, danged if I can see it at the moment.


Anyway, a thoroughly frustrating enjoyable cock-up from start to finish, including not quite arriving back on the mooring.Ahem.


Waved at Dan Tribe on Traigh, who was very generously sailing from Burnham to Bridgemarsh to deliver a length of furling section for my Walker Bay experiment.

Ahh, yes. Also, I need different clothing etc for dinghies. Wet little buggers they are.
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Aha, that was you! Sorry I didn't recognise you in a little boat.
It's the first time for years that we've been into Desolation Creek, improved no end ain't it?
 
DanTribe said:
Aha, that was you! Sorry I didn't recognise you in a little boat.
It's the first time for years that we've been into Desolation Creek, improved no end ain't it?
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Yep, figured you wouldn't recognise me.

Bridgemarsh set in a time warp. I'm kinda glad something is.
 
FullCircle said:
An incredible cats cradle of string and self launching spinnaker poles, and barber haulers (coarse) and barber haulers(fine) and Jib halllaird tensioners that work different to jib halliard tension. Lets not mention jib cunningham(new one on me).
Elasticated spinnaker halliard anyone? Or even elasticated pole downhaul?
So, with all that string a mess in the front end of the cockpit , perfect for tripping up and confusing the Squib novice.
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you must have been in heaven, Mr Tweaker.
 
ChattingLil said:
you must have been in heaven, Mr Tweaker.
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No, I was beating myself up for being such a knobber.
I haven't managed to hoist a spinnker inside the fortriangle for many years. Quite an achievement, and the spectacular bundle of string laughingly referred to as the guy, was up there on the end of the pole for all to see.:cool:
 
I delivered a parcel to Pinner and Bax some years ago (during a brief sojourn as a van driver) and was most interested in the sparkling new Flying Fifteen in the show room ... "Cor, I used to race one of those" sez I to the girlie in the showroom. "Oh really" sez she (showing polite but bored "interest"). "Yeah", I said, "but what the **** do all those bloody strings do?"

Reckon there was enough hardware on that one boat to have equipped an entire fleet in my day! :)
 
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