You're very kind, Gary.
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<br>Actually, by posting it to "the public domain" I've just made it un-patentable. Now it belongs to the world.
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<br>{.....Hello?.....}
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<br>{......... World? ......Are you listening? .......}
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<br>Hmph. Seems like the world has better things to do. :-)
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<br>Yesterday, I had the audacity to call up Randy Smyth with a suggestion to put cams in the luff batten pockets on dacron sails and run a string up through all of them, so you could tighten or loosen your whole batten set with one pull. If you had trouble keeping the string outta the air flow, you could put a flap over the string, and fair the resulting slightly fatter luff into the mast with long rubber stick-ons, which would also actually improve windward-side mast-sail transition.
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<br>He was also very kind, didn't laugh a bit.
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<br>Of course, I didn't hear him drop the phone and go running off, shouting "Bill, drop everying! We've got new luff pockets to design!"
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<br>Good thing I have a day job! :-)
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<br>Sail Fast!<br><br>