The latest 'project'

Originally posted by Jon711 Never, used or rigged one then Jim?

Every time I go sailing...

that's a nice little system - thanks for posting.

The K1 jib kicker as shown in the photo does not work as well as it should. When the jib is sheeted out, the various links between the deck and the jib "collapse" when the kicker is on hard, so the kicker is not doing its job efficiently.

Because of this, K1's are now allowed a dangly pole (after much discussion and testing during the year). So you can have a dangly pole and a jib boom. Also, some of the sailors have the dangly pole attached to the aft end of the jib boom with a tiller extension joint.

Perhaps somebody with experience of dangly poles could comment on loss of efficiency, due to wind age, when going upwind? In other words is the advantage downwind worth the loss upwind?

I was referring to the lower of the two pictures.

The extra pole in the upper picture was the alternative way of keeping the jib boom out before the dangly pole was allowed.

Have once or twice during club racing on silly courses in stupidly light winds goosewinged the B14. Helm and crew perched on the forward extensions of the wings, crew holding spinnaker sheets out even further. Not sure how effective it was, but everything in front of us stopped.