kicker attachment

To be honest i don't really see the problem on a singlehander with paired controls fitted in the conventional way. Sit on the side deck and pull it on with your in front hand. On the Tasar with its rotating mast their are a pair of blocks on the base of it's deck stepped mast but the system is operated by the crew who can reach it when hiked.

Ignoring the boat becoming massively unstable when the boom is swinging round, the only way to manage the controls is surely to keep them attached to the mast, and not coming back in the boat at all. It is the main sheet I'm worried about in that scenario, though?

I have read this over and over and over and I still can't see what the problem is with a normal kicker and a mainsail that gybes like every other boat in the world!?

there is, perhaps, a simple solution

i) remove the sheets, fit a wishbone boom with spongy grip all the way around the mast & foot of the sail

ii) apply some pro-grip liberrally to the cockpit and side decks

iii) stand up, take the boom in both hands, control the angle of the sail by moving your body and arms

iv) decide the hull and foils are a bit too large, re-shape them, lets say for example, like a race board

v) re-cut the sail, perhaps to a more raceboard friendly pattern

vi) leave dinghy development forever and go back to plank sailing

Originally posted by laser193713 I have read this over and over and over and I still can't see what the problem is with a normal kicker and a mainsail that gybes like every other boat in the world!? You don't see the guys in the olympics having trouble because of it, you don't even see the real down the pan sailors at some dodgy middle of nowhere pond having any trouble, so GRF, why are you with all your expertise and baffling knowledge about wind shifts and fitness having a problem!?

Being young, dumb and probably not as full of what you should be or you wouldn't be dinghy sailing, I shall take pity and explain your collective problem.

Gybing the way you do at the moment is very inefficient when it comes to getting the flow re attached not to mention all the banging and crashing that goes on, so I have just wondered how it could be improved, I've been puzzling ever since before that v2 episode, and then the EPS came along and does offer a tempting pathway with its rotating mast and below the boom shrouds, several times I've messed with it, but I'm stumped with the mainsheet transfer. I've considered round the front travellers, double sided main sheets, but it simply doesn't compute yet, but where there's a will.

Why do it? Why not. I'm bored when not actually on the water.