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Spinpole Windex Mount #168933
02/20/09 12:44 PM
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Looking for opinion on how people have mounted this so that it doesn't rip the chute. Have a Black Max boom mount.


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C.
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Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: Strategery] #168935
02/20/09 12:55 PM
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windex?

heh

Magnetic tape on bridles. If you put a windex anywhere, it probably should be on the top of the mast.

If you put it anywhere on the pole, the spin is going to eventually grab it, and rip it right off - or worse, put a hole in yer chute.

Mag tape works wonders!


Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: Strategery] #168936
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like this:

[Linked Image]


But seriously, I've seen them mounted under the tip of the spinnaker pole several times...personally, I prefer a pair cassette tape on the spin pole bridles taped in place halfway between the hull and the tip of the spin pole.

Last edited by Jake; 02/20/09 01:05 PM.

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Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: Jake] #168939
02/20/09 01:04 PM
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That's classic!

Go with 8 track tape.


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Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: Team_Cat_Fever] #168940
02/20/09 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Team_Cat_Fever
Go with 8 track tape.


8 track? What's and 8 track?????? grin


If your havin girl problems i feel bad for you son
I got 99 problems but my beautiful wife ain't one
Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: Jake] #168941
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[quote=Jake]like this:

[Linked Image]

My eyes,my eyes, the burning...



"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White
Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: ksurfer2] #168942
02/20/09 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by ksurfer2
Originally Posted by Team_Cat_Fever
Go with 8 track tape.


8 track? What's and 8 track?????? grin

That's those things on the spin bridle you wouldn't look at, at the Tybee last year. shocked


"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White
Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: Team_Cat_Fever] #168949
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Originally Posted by Team_Cat_Fever
Originally Posted by ksurfer2
Originally Posted by Team_Cat_Fever
Go with 8 track tape.


8 track? What's and 8 track?????? grin

That's those things on the spin bridle you wouldn't look at, at the Tybee last year. shocked


Why does the crew need to look at those? Was he having to drive too? (I gotta stand up for my SF crew).


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Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: Team_Cat_Fever] #168950
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So that's how it's gonna be..... grin


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I got 99 problems but my beautiful wife ain't one
Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: ksurfer2] #168960
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Originally Posted by ksurfer2
So that's how it's gonna be..... grin

I was just supposed to let the old guy comment slide right by?
You know me better than that.

Jake,
It's a boat direction spin trim thang, I'll 'splain it to ya sometime.


"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White
Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: ksurfer2] #168961
02/20/09 02:13 PM
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Too funny.

I use cassette, and old VHF tape. I think some Barney's playhouse video adorns my shrouds.

I do have tape on the bridles, and will keep it there - but I do know quite a few people have them on the pole, and I'm assuming that if there were issues, they would have yanked them.

But...that's why I bought a removable one. ;-)


Regards,

C.
Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: Strategery] #168962
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I'm tellin ya man

after a couple botched douses something's gonna give.


Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: Team_Cat_Fever] #168968
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Originally Posted by Team_Cat_Fever
Originally Posted by ksurfer2
So that's how it's gonna be..... grin

I was just supposed to let the old guy comment slide right by?
You know me better than that.

Jake,
It's a boat direction spin trim thang, I'll 'splain it to ya sometime.


Errrrrrrok.


Jake Kohl
Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: ThunderMuffin] #168969
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I mounted a Telocat to the bottom of the tip of the spipole and it was great...until I screwed up a douse and the whole works got tangled and holed. I was sailing single-handed and had to flip the boat to get the mess straightened out.

J

Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: SurfCityRacing] #168989
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I've created a vane from a 5" spring (Ace Hardware), some plastic celaphane sheet (craft shop), a straw (McDonalds). I cut the plastic into a triangle about 5" long by 1" wide and creased it down the middle to make it stiff. I wrapped the wide end around the straw and stapled it... The straw rotates freely on the spring... I just tape the vane to the end of the spin pole. It works great, but mainly only use it in light air conditions.

I've seen someone else use a cable cover and tell tale, which also works well...

Either of these are soft and flexible enough to not tear your spin.


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Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: MarkW_F18] #169008
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Bon Jovi and Celine Dion are the fastest tapes out there. I hear Wayne Newton is quick, but I dont have any 1st hand knowledge, I will have to get the 8 track from Tawd.

I did join Columbia House and got a box full of 8 tracks when I was a kid...AC/DC hell's Bells was in that box....


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Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: dave mosley] #169017
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i seem to recall someone claiming ABBA 8 track was fastest...

Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: dave mosley] #169021
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Originally Posted by dave mosley
Bon Jovi and Celine Dion are the fastest tapes out there. I hear Wayne Newton is quick, but I dont have any 1st hand knowledge, I will have to get the 8 track from Tawd.

I did join Columbia House and got a box full of 8 tracks when I was a kid...AC/DC hell's Bells was in that box....


I've been using a "how to quit smoking tape" ever since I started sailing in 2000. I DID quit smoking cigs...but it hasn't helped me on the water...


yuk yuk yuk.....

consequently, while coming back from Keowee two weeks ago, while towing the boat back home, I had that cassette in the front trampoline pocket of my a-cat. The tail apparently snuck out the zipper enclosure and by the time I got home, I had a 50 yard tape streamer off the back of the boat...I think it used up that tape. I'm going to have to find something new....so let's hear it.


Jake Kohl
Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: Jake] #169032
02/21/09 08:32 AM
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Waste of time and money putting one on the pole.The only time that you need one with a kite is in really light winds. the best place for one in light winds is atop the mast.


Paul

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Re: Spinpole Windex Mount [Re: TEAMVMG] #169045
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I've heard that Karen Carpenter is fast as well.


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