NS14 - still available in UK?

Nice- well there you go. Learned something new today :-)

Originally posted by pondmonkey do you use it when single handing Mike?

No reason why not: I have one on my Canoe.

I'd forgoted Graduates used dangly pole as well and there must be others coming along ...  To anyone who has never tried one either because they have not had access to a boat so equipped  or they have a spinnaker of some description  -  do try one if you get a chance.

Their use can be very simple or if you want you can get quite technical.  On Icon my crew loves the thing and frequently plays the jib at all angles except close hauled with both sheet and 'dangleline' control.  It allows him to have total control of leach tension and he can 'feed' the main on the fly constantly.  If you get it in the groove the boat accelerates away - no we could not go back to doing without a dangly now - no never.  Think of it like a kicker for jibs - now think what your main would be like without a proper kicker ... now do you get it  ? 

The key thing is that it not only makes the jib area more effective - more critically in my opinion it makes the main so much more efficient.   It can be made to work with and maintain real flow over the main to much much deeper angles than without,   negating much of the impact that the alternative spinnaker would imply.  You set up the tension so the flow is optimised around the mast and onto the main.  Sounds techie but in practice you can tell very quickly what works .. you just feel the difference so crew do not need to have any great theoretical understanding  - they just quickly learn what works by feel and obvious effect (and important especially with younger crew ... . they just cannot lose that  jib-stick' over the side !!  

Mike L.


Edited by blaze720 - 01 Jun 12 at 3:37pm

Good explanation Mike 

Originally posted by r2d2   that's the understatement of the day/week/month etc!  Cant think of three more different guys and reasons and as for complex well...