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    Posted: 06 Apr 16 at 1:48pm
Originally posted by JimC

I suppose it depends how you are using it. We use a large diameter terylene rope that's seriously over specced (but good to handle) which means that its pretty obvious when its getting tired and time to replace. I don't believe we've ever had a rope break, which bearing in mind the slope we're winching up is just as well.



A long long time ago a mate of mine reckoned he could get his Streaker back down that slope unaided at the end of an open meeting. He was right...but the boat did not fair too well when it reached the bottom.

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Is that Walton? I've seen 4 students in a Lark tobogganing down that slope.
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Actually I've seen JimC take his IC down that slope many times. He tacks down it.

Local yobs sometimes grab toppers and toboggan down.

My six year old daughters love rolling down

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Originally posted by rb_stretch

He tacks down it.

Please. *Gybes* down. I go across the slope at a shallow angle so if there's any risk of it getting away I can take two steps down the hill and the boat stops. I don't recommend that for other people and other boats though. My IC is light and has a very light alloy trolley.

All we do for going down is tie the trolley to the rope and take a turn round the winch drum with the winch off. That gives enough friction to control it.

Its funny, when you're new to it that slope is really intimidating, but with practice its no worry at all. Some of the most regular sailors prefer to keep their boats at the bottom of the hill.
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First time I turned up it was like "what the **** how the hell am I supposed to get up there?"
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Very friendly club Island Barn. The clubhouse is just like Hampton Court and sailing their can be just like the maze for a sea sailor like me!
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Nice article and thread - though not sure making yet more classes to suit the aging demographic of present sailors is a way to revitalise the sport. Arguably there are few sports (and few other sailing nations) that already have so many niches covered.

Also, reading through some of the responses - funny how it's human nature that 'everything that goes right is all my own doing, anything that goes wrong is someone else's fault'. So the decline in sailing is due to non-sailors being too lazy and feckless, nothing to do with how those presently in the sport act and have organised it?! Some of our older sailors espouse these views from time to time - funnily enough I've never seen them take any beginners sailing and their only interest are the club trophies (and whinging about handicaps).

Nicholas Hayes book 'Saving Sailing' is probably close to the target - despite being centred on the more keelboat focused US environment - it's about interaction between people and mentoring, so double handers and pairing up beginners with experienced sailors is something that needs (re?)engineering into the club environment.

I think the last thing we need is yet more singlehanders for old blokes to sail on their own - if anything the current popularity of some of the singlehanded classes seems less a success of the boats and more similar to the 'super-concentration' seen in fish stocks just before they collapse...
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Several fair points there DB.
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