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    Posted: 20 Mar 22 at 6:12pm
If you want something similar to Rupert and A2Z, you will have a forestay in the furling mechanism, you can still have it adjustable.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote The Q Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Mar 22 at 8:26am
Me I wouldn't use an expensive thing like that bottle screw.. 

I use String.. As do many keelboats on the Norfolk Boards. Tacking on the rivers you don't have time to do adjustments to the shrouds during the races, unless you fit a block and tacky beneath each shroud, and then you'd have to be sure your jammers are failsafe....

So this year it's about 5 turns of 2mm Dyneema round the U bolt which is the stay plate and also through the rigging Eye. I'll inspect the string regularly and change it if required. 
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Post Options Post Options   Quote iGRF Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Mar 22 at 9:00am
Originally posted by The Q

I use String.. As do many keelboats on the Norfolk Boards. Tacking on the rivers ... 


Well I guess when all your doing is hauling sugar beet up the Yare there's no real need.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote The Q Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Mar 22 at 11:36am
Darn thar on the Yar,  by Cantley you be a getin too close to the dark side of Suffuk for me Bor..
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Mozzy Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Mar 22 at 12:22pm
Bluewave turnbuckles have three (maybe 4?) advantages over a Vernier chain plate
1) More precise
2) Can be adjusted under tension with no additional tools
3) Can be adjusted without removing a shroud pin (safer on water)
4) Harder to accidently remove (never actually had this happen to be)

A two row Vernier is enough precision on shrouds and caps for me. But a bottle screw would be nice on lowers where smaller adjustments make greater changes to tension. However, this could be achieved with a regular bottle screw. 

2 and 3 are only really plus points if you want to be changing settings between races. Good when I was sailing 29ers and 49er and we'd have 4/5 race days with 10 hours on the water. But in amateur stuff with 2/3 race days and 3/4 hour days I am happy to set and forget. 

Point 4 I am not sure is a point. 

So overall they are a lot of extra expense for not much benefit. I would like bottle screws for lowers though, but a cheap set without in built spammers would suffice. 
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Rupert Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Mar 22 at 8:42am
Built in spammers?! You got igrf aboard?
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Post Options Post Options   Quote 423zero Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Mar 22 at 9:51am
What a nightmare probably moans from the second he steps aboard, can't imagine what he would say if you tipped him in
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