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Topic: Centre take off for sheets
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Centre take off for sheets
Date Posted: 27 Mar 18 at 1:49pm
I've previously made a brummel eye splice from 3mm dynema, then instead of burying a tail like  I take the two ends and feed one in each direction within the core of the sheet, milking back over the cover. Then a few stitches and whipping to hold in place. It seems to work well. The sheet then cow hitches to the clew and ends are tied in the boat. I'm not sure if the tail of a brummel is really designed to be loaded in this way, but it seems to work. The downside it you're left with quite a thick bit of rope by the clew, where you want it lightest. 

I've come across this video by rooster, which I've done on the 800 kite sheets as it's much simpler. But is it as strong? I fear if the cow hitch slipped it would slide back, stripping the outer from the core as it moved. Is that a real risk though? 
[TUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxWnNn5bnDU[/TUBE]

What I'd really like for the kite sheets on the 200 is a taper about 0.5 meter from where it attaches to the clew via loop which cow hitches. Could just strip the outer and then do a locking brummel in the middle, but instead of one tail of teh brummel being burried, it's taken away and becomes one of the sheets? Are brummels really designed to be loaded from two directions? 

Or should I taper both my sheets and eye splice them to a soft shackle which attaches to the clew? This would save having a knot in boat, but I'm not sure it would go around teh forestay as smooth!

Recommendations and your experiences please! 




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Posted By: cad99uk
Date Posted: 27 Mar 18 at 2:22pm
On our 800 and 29er we taper the sheets and put an eyesplice in the ends. Then use a 'luggage tag'to attach to clew. The luggage tag is a piece of vectran with an eyesplice on one end. Pass the eye of the vectran through the sheet eyes and then the free end of the vectran back through its own eye. Then bowline onto the clew.

Absolutely no snagging on the forestay. Best bit of bimbling we have done.


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