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    Posted: 06 Nov 13 at 12:55pm
Originally posted by iGRF

 If a kite can be made to gybe without graunching over the forestay all the time would that not be a bonus? ... Minds wide open please

memory open please... no forestay on an RS100, or a Vareo... or a D1.... 
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They're single handers, kites on single handers are easier to use than the twin handers I've experienced.
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Originally posted by iGRF

They're single handers, kites on single handers are easier to use than the twin handers I've experienced.

LOL  LOL  LOL - maybe in Kent, where genetic mutations around extra limbs and digits is so prevalent.  
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Post Options Post Options   Quote tgruitt Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 Nov 13 at 1:14pm
Originally posted by yellowwelly

Originally posted by iGRF

They're single handers, kites on single handers are easier to use than the twin handers I've experienced.

LOL  LOL  LOL - maybe in Kent, where genetic mutations around extra limbs and digits is so prevalent.  


I can sail the RS200 quite happily with the spinnaker out to windward even without the SRS pole....
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Post Options Post Options   Quote iGRF Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 Nov 13 at 11:31am
Woke up this morning with a Eureka moment, think I may have an idea to make my symmetric kite work asymmetrically on either tack.

So, what about this..

Top of the kite on a batten track (batten and a bit of line through the pulley) when you sheet it the kite pulls to one end of the track, leaving the new trailing edge supported by the batten, which then twists off to leeward.

Simples.

Save your applause for later, just for now tell me why it won't work.
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do we get a consultancy fee when you print this thread out to submit it with your R&D Tax Credit application?
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Post Options Post Options   Quote iGRF Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 Nov 13 at 12:08pm
Originally posted by yellowwelly

do we get a consultancy fee when you print this thread out to submit it with your R&D Tax Credit application?

Did you not get yours? Cheque's in the post - honest.
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Pardon??


Originally posted by iGRF

Woke up this morning with a Eureka moment, think I may have an idea to make my symmetric kite work asymmetrically on either tack.

So, what about this..

Top of the kite on a batten track (batten and a bit of line through the pulley) when you sheet it the kite pulls to one end of the track, leaving the new trailing edge supported by the batten, which then twists off to leeward.

Simples.

Save your applause for later, just for now tell me why it won't work.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Presuming Ed Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 Nov 13 at 1:10pm
Originally posted by iGRF

Top of the kite on a batten track (batten and a bit of line through the pulley) when you sheet it the kite pulls to one end of the track, leaving the new trailing edge supported by the batten, which then twists off to leeward.

WTF? Can't work out what this is trying to say, or what problem it's trying to solve. 
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Post Options Post Options   Quote tgruitt Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07 Nov 13 at 1:25pm
Can you draw something please, the words just don't make sense.
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