Re gloves...one of the biggest diff I notice with the very grippy gloves...hand fatigue is very much reduced. You don't need to squeeze much at all to hold line even under high loads...great for long off-wind spin sheet or upwind main sheet holding periods.

Mike.

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I've tried Flightline with the cover stripped off ... cotton gardening gloves with the palms dipped in (usually) blue latex.


Yes, Flightline looks like a really nice line. I haven't tried it personally, but it has a thin SK75(dyneema) core and a nice grippy polypropolene cover. It seems to have been designed with spinnakers in mind and I expect we'll see a lot of it around.

A while back, I bought a box of knitted kevlar gloves with nitrile coating on the palms & fingers (for handling cut glass). Maybe I should try those instead of my Harken gloves sometime...


Mike Dobbs
Tornado CAN 99 "Full Tilt"