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    Posted: 03 Nov 05 at 4:02pm
i was crewing on a spitfire cat and i notices there was one on the leech of the spinny.
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All the older topper sails that i have sailed on or taught on have leach lines and progressively need tightening as the sails stretch but i havnt seen them on the new style sails.

Dont tighten unless you know what your doing ive seen people pull them or kids hang on to them and its a whole say gone to waste
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Its a bit of thin rope coming out of the leech near the clew which you can pull to tension the luff.

Similarly there is a line coming out the foot of the sail on a topper which does the same but to the foot and not the leech!
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What's a leech line? Anyone got a picture? I never heard of them...
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I remember those...I remember thinking "ooh thats another bit of string I can pull. Ah, memories...
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Originally posted by Harry44981!

Yes both the old and new design sails definately have leech lines. You could have been sailing with an unofficial training sail?


Definantly official sails... obviously im just really unobservant
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Originally posted by Guest#260

Originally posted by Harry44981!

Yes both the old and new design sails definately have leech lines. You could have been sailing with an unofficial training sail?

They never had these in the good old days; Danny Robbins or Gastraa sails disn't have leech lines.

I guess this is somthing Hyde introduced ...

yeah, well by "old style" I mean the hyde sails that were used before the contract being passed over to another manufacturer this year (with a slighly different design), not the real old school sails some of you wil have used!
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Originally posted by Harry44981!

Yes both the old and new design sails definately have leech lines. You could have been sailing with an unofficial training sail?

They never had these in the good old days; Danny Robbins or Gastraa sails disn't have leech lines.

I guess this is somthing Hyde introduced ...
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Yeah i can also assure you that racing topper sail's have leech and foot lines.
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Yes both the old and new design sails definately have leech lines. You could have been sailing with an unofficial training sail?
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