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simonrh
Posting king Joined: 10 Jan 10 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 186 |
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Topic: Asymmetric Spinnaker Help! Posted: 20 May 10 at 4:18pm |
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Oli, Is it you I end up chatting to on Wednesday afternoons up there while messing with my Vortex? Just bought the 5K? Next time you are up have a look at the vortex kite sheets as they hang out from under the cover. It's not pretty but just dragged the core out in the middle of the sheet, stitched through the cover and put a thumb knot in it. Kite is then attached with a short Dynnema larks head loop. Hasn't failed yet.
Pimp my MPS website is good for info. |
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Dart 18 7118 Smartkat stunt sailor extraordinaire |
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scrimbo
Newbie Joined: 20 Feb 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 18 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 20 May 10 at 4:41pm | |
Many thanks! This what i like...a bit of boat pimping Im thinking that the Holmenkohl may well be worth it, as it may give some life to our old old spinaker (with lots lots of patches) and save us the £700 of a new kite. Who would have thought sails for such a 'mature' class could be so expensive?
Certainly wasnt me.... may well have been my helm Mark though. Ill find out if it was him and if so still take a glance at the sheets. Does it not worry you putting a thumb not in it as this then promotes it getting caught up? Cheers |
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Oli Scrimshaw
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simonrh
Posting king Joined: 10 Jan 10 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 186 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 20 May 10 at 4:51pm | |
Must have too many 5ks now at Grafham then. The guy I was chatting has just bought his a couple of weeks back? never mind can never have too many boats.
Looks a bit like this: http://www.mustoskiff.com/downloads/pimp-my-kite-sheet.pdf But rather than splice the narrow loop into the middle of the sheet as shown, I have just milked hte core through and put a little stopper in the end then stitched and whipped it to keep it from sliding around. Vortex is probably easier and safer as it has a chute and sheets are pretty much kept tight most of the time. Edited by simonrh |
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Flick-Flock
Posting king Joined: 27 Mar 09 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 102 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 20 May 10 at 8:59pm | |
We just have the larks head on our 5k and its never caused us any problems (the problems are usually helm or crew related :D)
We've also put some fabsil or some kind of waterproofer on the kite at the start of the season, and the kite does feel a bit nicer, especially after a swim. Another think we did this year thats really helped is lube up everything the pole touches on the way out and its made launching the pole much easier. Im sure someone who can stay drier in a 5k will have some better advice though. |
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Rockhopper
Really should get out more Joined: 16 Nov 07 Location: Eastry Online Status: Offline Posts: 642 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 21 May 10 at 10:59am | |
With all the fives i have had 5241,5272,5311 all we did was have the inner core pulled out and stiched making a very nice loop however on the last we a seperate piece made that was thread through the middle then stiched.If are having trouble getting it round the forestay it might be also cause you are not running deep enough to blow the kite round making it easier on the crew
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