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    Posted: 24 Sep 14 at 10:06pm
Damn thing is too long for Facebook, trying to shorten it, haven't really messed about with video editing, number three daughter normally does all that.

I'll see if I can email you the raw file, it offers that option out of iMovie.

It's just a head cam of me looming about in the eps, but it does prove that the idea works, it works fine if you sheet off the boom, I then tried sheeting via the main sheet block and cleat, which threw up a problem tack and gybing as the line gets crossed.

It'll work fine on the sea, but on the lake, I'm not so sure that any advantage it may give would be worth the possible problems off the boom sheeting brings, plus on that lake you don't really get to sail long enough for hiking pain to cut in.

Interesting and fun experiment though. I'm going to leave it in place.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote kneewrecker Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Sep 14 at 8:47pm
I can stick it youtube for you if want- post me the SD card, I promise not to splice it with tranny porn (again)
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Post Options Post Options   Quote iGRF Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Sep 14 at 7:08pm
I've used it now, got a video I'm wrestling to extract from this helmet cam thing I've had laying about for 18 months and forgot I had.

I tried it down the lake and to be honest if I'd raced with it I'd have been toast, but on the sea, there's no doubt in my mind now it'll be a welcome addition. It's a bit weird to try something like this, you don't know what's exactly going to happen but I'll show you the vid, uncut so you can make your own judgements.

Just need to get it up somewhere I can post a link to.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Do Different Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Sep 14 at 5:27pm
Well, the mechanics looked flawed to me.
BUT.
It's wednesday and honest injun, I'm interested to hear how it went in practice.


Edited by Do Different - 24 Sep 14 at 5:28pm
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Originally posted by iGRF

... there are things called donkey dicks that do the same thing.


No doubt you are the proud owner of a number of donkey dicks ...
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Post Options Post Options   Quote iGRF Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Sep 14 at 10:09pm
Dunno it should be under tension, that's where I've been using it of late, had a traveller made from garden hose to stop the bloody rope engaging with the block during transitions, rear sheeting didn't do me any favours and it's been about as successful in that position as anything else I've tried. The only issue now i can foresee is my tendency to over sheet, but hopefully the 'feel' I'll get from the boom, which i miss so much, might compensate if I'm hooked in.

I've actually got another spreader hook with a blocking device to stop the spreader dropping out if it is an issue or there are things called donkey dicks that do the same thing.
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Won't it get knocked out of that hook a little too easily? Rather a strange angle, too?
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Post Options Post Options   Quote iGRF Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Sep 14 at 9:58pm
So, here's the fall back scenario, the chicken loop hooks into a spreader bar shackled to the hull and everything works the way it used to.



Bit of fun, or could it be a serious bonus, who knows, only one way to find out, racing it tomorrow afternoon.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote sargesail Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Sep 14 at 8:11pm
I'm not sure what made me laugh more the 'blockundtackelhandler' (note 1), or the not so gentle mockery by GRF's daughters.

Note 1: A device featured in a Leslie Thomas novel for lowering a man onto a reclining woman whenever she requires.  Until now never put into production.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote iGRF Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Sep 14 at 3:49pm
Originally posted by Do Different

<span style=": rgb251, 251, 253;">"Hmm, didn't just think for a bit that calling absolutely everyone who sails dinghies 'not as bright as the rest of us' delivered whilst seated in a dingy, might just be a tad ironical? Not a hint in the voice? No ? - Nevermind, hows the weather up there? "</span>
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<span style=": rgb251, 251, 253;">Well yes, awash with irony, especially the entire concept of a windsurfer adding more rope systems to a dinghy. It seems I must apologise, for so much of your posting I am often unsure if you are oblivious to the irony or it is intended. </span>
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The written word is not my best medium, one day it would be good to have a proper conversation, once I went as far south as Weymouth, how do you live with that many people?
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<span style=": rgb251, 251, 253;">As for the weather, sun's still shining. Cool  </span>


No, please don't apologise, you'll make me feel bad I took no offence from anything you might have said... If in doubt the sort of character I am, both here and in real life, I'd assume irony is in there somewhere.. Unless you're a member of the PYAG of course.
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