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    Posted: 20 May 15 at 9:40am
Now I seem to remember seeing this on those flying stick insects, but has anyone tried it on conventional boats to enable the rig to sail by the lee? This Solution has them, I'm convinced they do not a lot but then not having had to put up with old fashioned metal crap masts before, my one concern might be that it goes and inverts itself.

So if they (the spreaders) faced forward how lesser effective at whatever it is they are supposed to be doing are they likely to be, is the question for speculation here..
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Hi Graham
Just looked at the Solution page on this website and all the images show the spreaders pointing aft not forward.
You havnt put the mast in backwards have you
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I'm guessing this is a reference to swinging spreaders or similar?  I know they worked well on my old supernova.
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Swinging spreaders will work well where there is not a lot of tension on the rig. For something like the Solution I think you run far too much rig tension to make it work properly.
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No it wasn't that mine were reversed it was to discuss the possibility of reversing them, would the ends justify the means and is it a risk worth taking, the risk obviously being the mast bending the wrong way, we don't go out in much over 20 kts, but that's not to say one day we could get caught out, it does happen.
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Mast would invert and the sail would need to be re-cut to suit at the very least.
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Originally posted by jeffers

Mast would invert and the sail would need to be re-cut to suit at the very least.

You would also then end up with the kicker causing the main to fill rather than flatten, would be an interesting ride in a breeze - if the mast stayed up!
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XODs have forward-swept top spreaders, and are made almost entirely of wood - maybe you should get one...

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Originally posted by Woodburner

Now I seem to remember seeing this on those flying stick insects...


Are you referring to the 'prodder' which International Moths use to push on the forestay? Or the fact that the Moth spreaders are physically located further forward, on a bracket that comes off the front face of the mast?

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I've had a look at them, there is no apparent way of making them point any further forward as they are currently set, so what to do, trying to run by the lee this avo getting slowy but surely taken by a Laser , we're side by side same tack same wind, his flow was reversed, damned if i could get mine to, kicker off, rig loose, rig tight it didn't matter i can't get the leech far enough forward to make it happen and actually go where I want to go.

Edited by Woodburner - 20 May 15 at 7:47pm
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