What is the diameter, wall thickness and length of your "strut" to the spi pole?
I will have to get back to you on that. Give me a little time.
Also, do you know where the front most small line from the snuffer ring is supposed to go?? I noticed you just have your's tied around the pole!
yeah that picture was taken right after the DCC and we had to quick fix a few things.
Actually in a few special cases the spi cloth was reported to catch in the V between the pole and ring. I have never encountered this problem, but I always fully tension the retrieval line before uncleating the halyard. My spi is as good as tube before it enters the mouth and I don't think it can hang that way.
But the line is a remedie for the spi hanging up like that. You rivet a small saddle under you pole at about a foot ahead of the ring and you tie that line of to that. Now you have a little triangle between the line the pole and ring. Therefor the line prevents the spi from going into the V between the ring and pole. That is is.
But at the DCC the tying off the line to the pole as showed didn't cause any problems.
Wouter
