Jalani,
You would prefer that everyone allow "wrong or based on 'suspect' parameters" advice go uncorrected?
You would prefer that a trusting person who comes to this site expecting tried and true advice, be given recomendations which cause (according to Gary) " a couple of capsizes"?
Is that the purpose of this OPEN FORUM?
To be Politically Correct and not embarrass anyone for their bad advice and allow the newbies to damage their boats or be injured?
NO!!!
An open forum allows everyone to speak and the flaws and errors and facts will be brought out by the participation of many different people with a variety of skill, success and education. (sounds like Democracy to me)
To allow one or two persons to decide what is "true", based upon their own agenda,is a Socialist dictatorship.

His intentions are not "well meant".
He is egotistical, egomaniacal, narcissitic, pompous, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-centered, self-indulgent and vainglorious.

What would you call a person admits his design causes problems, only one other person admits to using that design (but is changing), but insists on using it?

KW,
We can always tell when you are losing an argument.
You start some B.S. like "performance to cost" ratio.
There are no "expensive blocks" involved.
I have never seen anyone use "sister clips" for trap lines, only plastic hooks or tied directly on.
The only cost involved is the bungee being 2 feet longer.
On a boat that cost over $10,000, I don't think anothe $2.00 is going to break anyones bank account.

You already admitted to "the problems" "linked with this system" such as difficulty hooking and unhooking.
What "advantage"?
What "drop to the side of the boat" are you talking about?
What is holding you up and then allows you to"drop"?

The conventional system allows the skipper to sit at the rear beam, pull the trap back towards them, hook up, without having to lift up, and slide out on the wire.

You don't actually think that you have a better harness than the "guys" (professional sailmaker, Tybee 500 racer, Tornado racer, etc) do you?

Yes, YOU DO have problems.
You admitted it.


Gary,
My comments have nothing to do with an adjustment system of any kind.
Some very fast, successful people like adjusting, some like simple.
Go to Murrays http://www.murrays.com/archive/49.pdf to see pictures of trapeze adjustments kits.
You can see the tension bungee in the pictures.