Hiking or Wiring

Steve Cockerill has nearly as many decades of conventional sheet to unlearn as I do.
And he has a better standard to unlearn of course....
He's still actively sailing other boats too.
The 800 has a boom made of heavy ali, designed for centre main. That may not be the case with other boats. Wasn't the twin tiller option also linked with single trap?

To be fair to Steve I think this was an early sail with the off boom. And he hadn't yet learnt the trick to pass the sheet around the trap handle like he talks about in a later video... 

I can't remember how the MPS is set up, that being the only single hand trapeze boat I've ever sailed and I was still learning the delicate art back then so it probably had a cleat. I recall the technique was to chuck the sheet into the centre of the boat as you came off the wire, then pick it up with the new hand as you went through, that suggests some form of deck mounted device and if you want a kite you will need to cleat off the main, not something I've had much experience of, of late, I don't have any cleats on either of my current boats, but they are both sheeted off the deck and I tend to favour rear sheeting off a bridle it overcomes my shortcomings with that kicker thing. The original Punk set up I felt was a work of art, but then not a trap boat. What might be needed is some sort of off boom set up that can be cleated at the boom, never seen anything like that, anyone know if such a device exists?

Originally posted by iGRF I can't remember how the MPS is set up, that being the only single hand trapeze boat I've ever sailed and I was still learning the delicate art back then so it probably had a cleat. I recall the technique was to chuck the sheet into the centre of the boat as you came off the wire, then pick it up with the new hand as you went through, that suggests some form of deck mounted device and if you want a kite you will need to cleat off the main, not something I've had much experience of, of late, I don't have any cleats on either of my current boats, but they are both sheeted off the deck and I tend to favour rear sheeting off a bridle it overcomes my shortcomings with that kicker thing. The original Punk set up I felt was a work of art, but then not a trap boat. What might be needed is some sort of off boom set up that can be cleated at the boom, never seen anything like that, anyone know if such a device exists?

You have - you are forgetting the RS100 prototype with the flip-flop boom sheeting.

MPS doesn’t have any of them mainsheet or bridle at the transom, you swing the extension around the back.

Some Swift solos use flip flops off the boom iirc

Edited by turnturtle - 20 Feb 18 at 9:26am