Telescopic Pole Warning

[claymore]

If you have recently puchased a telescopic spinnaker pole - allow me to advise you concerning the stringy bit with which you can pull the endy thingys open.
When you have the pole in its non-extended mode you will need a certain length of string to reach from one end to the other.
When you extend the pole, the pole gets longer and so you will find that the piece of string that you have fitted will not actually be long enough.
This in itself is not exactly rocket science but herein lies the warning - It would be better if you got your piece of string and tied it off in the non extended mode, leaving any extra just hanging there so that when you extend the pole you can simply adjust the length of the string until it it ok then tie it off and cut off any excess.
If you have used some rather pleasant looking dyneema which you got from the Boat Show - even when it was purchased at a reduced cost (plus marital discount worked out on the way home) then some over exubrant visiting ageing forumite decides to administer death by a thousand cuts to it with his shiney yachtingpersonyknifie - its a real bummer to find that the nice looking dyneema was exactly the right length - or would have been if the 6ft had not been cut off.

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Claymore
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[webcraft]

You let these people use sharp things??

- Nick

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[Cornishman]

That's what happens when you let all those Poles into the EU. There ought to be a directive about it somewhere.

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[ParaHandy]

humph ... string still wasn't long enough until i found the bit with the wee note which said "attach halyard here" (otherwise it'd nivver hae goat up ...)

as youse widnae hoist yon dish cloth agin "it might get yet" wiz yer refrain, ah hiv tae say that fer youse being in the hielands an a', its nae verra likely it wull ever be flown agin if yer sae worried aboot getting it wet .. mind, it could shrink?


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[zefender]

Re: Technical query

Could you please tell me just how long the piece of string needs to be?

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[claymore]

Ah cannae believe whit ah've jes read ye great mickle lummox. Ah didnae want it tae get wet as it wiz going tae be stored in ra forepeak an ask yersel this, who else wiz in ra forepeak? Youse ye great tattie scone. Ah wiz only thinkin o' yer ain health an this is whit a get fer it...next year ah'm removin ra hatch cover an yer sleepin unner they stars ye ungratefu' wretch.

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Claymore
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