Pimp Club

That mainsheet takeaway is a top idea, have you tried it in action? For some reason I can't get the mainsheet to stay in this boat, I can't remember it being this much of a problem last time I sailed 600's.

Yeah i know mate The rope kicker, foredeck cunningham
and the start of the Maffioli takeover were thanks to you.
I have just continued with the ideas...

Ill do a new post with pictures of your works of genius if
you want mate

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I havent got a picture at the moment but ill go to the boat
tomorrow and get one.

The strop is just a short lenght of white and blue D12 i
think it is, with an adjustable splice at each end which
creates 2 loops. These loops go round the boom and join the
block furthest aft on the kicker with a shackle which just
hooks through them. The picture will probably clear it up
if that doesnt really make sense.

Thanks dude. Hmm im not too sure. I kinda like them like
that. Plus the mascot lady sits perfectly on them as they
are :)

Right, seeing as the 600 is now finished and has had its first outing of the season, i thought i would get a couple of pics of the finished article.

I know a couple of pages back someone asked me about what non-standard pimps/bimbles i had done, so here is a list of everything i can remember.

• Refurbished and resprayed racks in gloss/satin black.
• Revarnished mast (its nice and shiny now).
• Lazy hooks on adjustable spliced trapeze adjusters.
• Rope kicker cascade attached to aft ring on boom with adjustable strop - Marlow Excel V12 i think? - is longer and better than the pooey standard wire one.
• Mainsheet jammer removed - Harken 57mm ratchet block on its own.
• Harken 40mm ti-lite blocks on boom to take bigger rope.
• 8mm Maffioli Swiftcord mainsheet with elastic spliced in the end for centered take-up system.
• Continuous spliced cunningham across foredeck.
• Continuous spliced kicker.
• Gorilla Grip Mojo butt plug pads (cheers for the idea russ) for deck grip + some pro slip in a pretty pattern.
• ALL ropes are Gottifredi Maffioli (except for kicker cascade) and follow a blue theme throughout the boat. Im not even joking, ive been unbelievably anal about this. I mean every rope is maff; the main, trapeze ropes, all rig controls, forestay adjuster, main halyard rudder downhall thingy - even the thin bits of string that tie the blocks to the boom is the special patterned evo race from LDC. And the tiny bits that hold the metal rings to the shroud plates for the foredeck cunny are the outer braid of the same rope.
• I have way too much time on my hands so the bits of rope that are protecting my nice newly painted racks from the U bolts will be covered in the blue melange maff soon.

I think i have mentioned everything. Most of the stuff i have mentioned there was already done when i got the boat so i havent had much to do. But i have had a play around with new bits.

Now for some pictures. They arent that good but they give the general idea.

Here was the boat when it first came home

The bent and faded rack which needed seeing to...

This gay pink cleat was removed...

... and this is left now

The foam block is the heel block from the Gorilla pad which ripped off. I thought i would do something with it so i glued it on there. It does nothing but look good.

Here is the rest of the centre pad...

And the other 2 bits are on the side decks with the block bits pointing inwards. It gives a good point to push of from to get out to the rack on a broad reach,

or to stand agaist in marginal trapezing conditions.

Rope covered U bolts:

The nice shiny racks and my favourite new addition - the mascot

The boat inside the bar area on the lower deck of the club - in the warm so i can put the proslip on the painted racks (looking in from outside)

The cleaned up cockpit area:

Close up of the mainsheet takeup. It comes from the block out to a clip on my harness, then goes back to the plastic ring behind the block,

through another ring on the rudder post and then ties back to the first ring with elastic. It helps keep the majority of the rope in the boat when

going upwind so its not all dragging in the water, and it means if i drop it its always attached to me. 

And finally a pic of everything

 

Wow thats a long post  

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