Thanks Karl, Jake,
I am replacing my shrouds/forestay before the GT300 this year though.
Jake, can you tell me/show me again how you had your 'chicken lines' and foot straps.
Currently I have one foot strap each side only.
TIA,
Todd
We are one footstrap only now too with the F18. The chicken line is simple and just for the crew right now. It goes from the rudder fitting on the hull to a bunji that sucks it into the rear beam. I probably won't mess with a chicken line again unless the forcast for the Florida 300 is for big air and then we'll rig something up.
On the I20, probably the easiest setup we had was this one here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/teamseacats/496549944/in/set-72157600194459491We had stopper balls on small loops attached to our harnesses. You would step under the chicken line and then the prusik knot loops on the chicken line would just drop around the stopper ball and stay there. You could still get out of it fairly easily even if it was loaded but it still made me a little nervous. I might just put the stopper ball on the trap ring in the future so I only have one point connecting me to the boat.
