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    Posted: 08 Dec 14 at 1:36pm
Sounds like a prime trigger for crew's revenge. Uncleat all sheets & sit in the bottom of the boat until apology is forthcoming. 
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When I was a young crew a quick spinnaker set was rewarded with a Werther's Original. These days give a kid a Werther's Original and everyone would think you were a dirty old man.

Times and motivations have changed.

More importantly, who makes the best non return cleat for a pump hoist system..
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Northfix. This. http://www.pinbax.com/index.asp?selection=detailed&uid=38527&cg=7&mc=74&cct=4&sc=576
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Cheers Noah
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Originally posted by Chris 249

A bit OT considering the way the topic has gone, but the fastest and worst spinnaker sets I've ever seen were the ones Etchells used to do.

1- Get a bunch of green plastic garbage bags.
2- Put them inside the spinnaker bag.
3- Pack the spinnaker inside the garbage bag, inside the spinnaker bag.
4- Tie the head of the garbage bag.
5- At the hoist, pull the garbage bag up; the bagged kite moves really quickly.
6- Pull the sheet and brace and the kite pops out of the bag, drops and fills almost immediately.
7- Sail away, watching everyone else gobsmacked at the environmental vandalism that sees 30-40 green plastic garbage bags suddenly littering the water at the top mark.
8- Repeat every top mark for every race.
9- Have the RRS changed to outlaw the barbarism, and not before time.

Fast? Yep. Very wrong? You betcha.


Hope they had more than their fair share of plastic bags on keels!
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