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    Posted: 02 Sep 06 at 11:10am
Originally posted by Tornado_ALIVE

With a cat though, if you use a chicken line, when you stick a bow in, you will rearly swim if at all.  Monos don't have this luxury.



Chicken lines are for chickens

On a more serious note we find that the foot loop on the back corner is enough to keep the crew on the back in a nose dive.
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I am quiet supprised that few people in the F18 class use chicken lines.  They are quiet popular in the Tornado Class.

On big nose dives we have come out of foot straps.  Also in the real fresh stuff, we get our back foot on the transom getting weight futher back.  This is a technique we picked up from John Forbes several years ago after he saw a Euro team use it to great effect in a fresh series.

 

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hi i sail a Hobie Dragoon but movin onto a Hobie 16 after getting 4th in the worlds and winning the Nationals, and also because im too big now!. Dragoons are too short to get your weight back when it really windy! so u cant really trapeze downwind because the nose goes in before the hull comes up! thats normally if it wavey but evem when its flat sometimes! i was wondering does a chickin line not leve u hanging in mid air if the boat does go over and i would not like the thought of that!

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Originally posted by Tornado_ALIVE

I am quiet supprised that few people in the F18 class use chicken lines.  They are quiet popular in the Tornado Class.



Good diagram.

I can see the logic for them, don't get me wrong, I have just never had the need so never put one on.
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Originally posted by Seb_Greber

hi i sail a Hobie Dragoon but movin onto a Hobie 16 after getting 4th in the worlds and winning the Nationals

Me singlehanding (do have a crew lol)

 

 

Wow Seb, that's impressive. Are you an olympic hopeful?
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