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    Posted: 24 Oct 05 at 8:12pm
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What's a leech line? Anyone got a picture? I never heard of them...
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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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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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i was crewing on a spitfire cat and i notices there was one on the leech of the spinny.
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