BLUEMOMENT

Why do you have the downhaul going direct to the pole, but the uphaul to the bridle? I would have thought either have both direct to the pole, or use both bridles to minimise bending the pole?

I did say it should be t'other way up, as did t'other crew, but FC insisted he was correct and since he had brought the blocks and string we let him get on with it.

When he later tried to persuade us that this was also a good idea we realised we should have over-ruled him.

Pete Cooper wrote:Why do you have the downhaul going direct to the pole, but the uphaul to the bridle? I would have thought either have both direct to the pole, or use both bridles to minimise bending the pole?

I cant remember exactly, but I think the bottem bridle was linked directly to the piston releases for some reason, so would have just released it all.

You should have seen how we rigged the blocks elsewhere........

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Oops - now sorted.

Silkie wrote:I did say it should be t'other way up, as did t'other crew

I thought that the important bit was that the pole was rigged such that the end fittings sat this way up



IIRC my pole has a bridle only on one side and central fix on t'other but I can't remember which is top ( I haven't yet undertaken the Silkie Own Boat Kite Flying Tuition Course)

Ash