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    Posted: 29 Jan 13 at 10:00pm
Haha, I dare you, yes DARE you to have a go at the FOM if we can make it this year... LOL
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You're not well Boot, go and see a doctor, then give yourself up, confess child abuse to social services chum, you know you want to, get over all that guilt..
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Oh, and Grumph.... do give the OK a sail sometime - not the fastest thing around, but great fun and massively rewarding. 
 
I've got myself an OK too now, but my job currently has me doing 90 hr weeks, working 7 days a week for about the next month, so I've only got out once Cry
 
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And all of that for less than the cost of an RS300 carbon boom/fittings Wink
 
 
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Well you streakers, it shouldn't matter should it? Are you not all enjoying being the same?
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it probably would actually. i've been trying to think of ways to do it without an added kicker effect, but cant try any of then out until spring, since my boats in storage :/
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If you ran the shock-cord through 2 small blocks suspended at gooseneck height, attached in some way (thin shock cord?) allowing the leeward side to pull away from the mast, would this negate the vang effect?
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i get unwanted vang downwind.
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Could that not be cured by putting the pulley on an adjuster and only wanging tension on downwind?
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i have one on my streaker, and i hate it in really light winds, because it gives me unwanted vang :/
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JC Strap is fantastic for preventing those annoying light wind boom/forehead interactions, along with holding the boom out.
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