| Footstraps on a Tiger #187536 08/10/09 02:22 PM 08/10/09 02:22 PM |
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 270 Nepean (Ottawa) Ontario Canada Frozen OP
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Posts: 270 Nepean (Ottawa) Ontario Canada | I put windsurfer footstraps on my Tiger behind the rear crossbar. Any thoughts on this?
Seems like I don't need a second set. Again any thoughts on this.
BTW I love the ones behind the Xbar.
Cheers Alan F
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#187558 08/10/09 06:48 PM 08/10/09 06:48 PM | Scarecrow
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#187595 08/11/09 08:03 AM 08/11/09 08:03 AM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 3,906 Clermont, FL, USA David Ingram
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Posts: 3,906 Clermont, FL, USA | Are people just holding onto the chicken/jesus line or are they actually hooking in somehow? I'm a little uneasy about having my crew or myself actually hooking in. If people are simply holding the line is it excessively fatiguing?
David Ingram F18 USA 242 http://www.solarwind.solar"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda "Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a complete idiot, but it helps"
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#187599 08/11/09 08:30 AM 08/11/09 08:30 AM |
Joined: May 2006 Posts: 1,383 Kingston SE South Australia JeffS
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Posts: 1,383 Kingston SE South Australia | How do you not end up hanging in the air like in Tornado blast on youtube?
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#187624 08/11/09 01:51 PM 08/11/09 01:51 PM |
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Posts: 1,152 tampa, fl | I have had chicken lines set up two different ways. One, was with an S hook that was affixted to a roller cleat (like used on an adjustable trapeze system. The hook goes to the trap ring NOT the harness. This is a nice system and easy to set up and use, but you need to be careful jibing to hook the S hook to the hiking strap on the tramp when jibing other wise it bounces around on the hull. It works great for distance races, but not so much for buoys. The other plan is to attach to jam cleats to your harness bar (mine are attached to small plates that I had welded to the bar). This way the chicken line just goes into the cleat and when not in use, sucks back into the rear beam with a bungee. A little quicker to use and suits both buoy and distance races. I have crashed while attached to both systems, and neither have hung me like the video.
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#187714 08/12/09 10:54 AM 08/12/09 10:54 AM |
Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 3,906 Clermont, FL, USA David Ingram
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Posts: 3,906 Clermont, FL, USA | I'll give the hooks a go, I like the ball and loop idea too. Any thoughts on using a snapshackle?
I have to do something, sweetness has already issued a few threats when she is "requested" to wire up downwind.
David Ingram F18 USA 242 http://www.solarwind.solar"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda "Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetent" - Two sista's I overheard in the hall "You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a complete idiot, but it helps"
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#192014 09/25/09 03:15 PM 09/25/09 03:15 PM |
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Posts: 246 Kiel, Germany | We had the lines with hooks (chicken lines) on the Tiger we just sold and liked them a lot. Only used in really big swell and wind. In "normal" conditions it was not used. Only, only only hook it to the trapeze handle and NEVER the trapeze harness. This is very, very clever! In this case one can use a fast eye snap or carabiner. Currently we have an open hook, but during tacks my main sheet gets very often tangled in this hook.
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