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Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 05-05-2019, 11:20
Replies: 667
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Posted By wsmurdoch
Re: Stealth mode - New Generation Ropes

Sailing along this morning watching the dinghy bridle pull on the painter as the following waves yanked it about, I wondered... How about just a simple square knot tied in the three eye splices?...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 03-05-2019, 09:07
Replies: 667
Views: 250,956
Posted By wsmurdoch
Re: Stealth mode - New Generation Ropes

Would the drogue doubled line sliding back and forth on the bridle doubled line as the boat yawed cut one line or the other? Would lashings be needed to stop that motion?
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Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 01-05-2019, 14:01
Replies: 667
Views: 250,956
Posted By wsmurdoch
Re: Stealth mode - New Generation Ropes

I tried it in the slick 1/4" blue rope that litters the beaches. This is with a 200 lb load on the drogue line with an impossibly wide angle between the bridle lines. The bridle lines migrated to...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 01-05-2019, 10:42
Replies: 667
Views: 250,956
Posted By wsmurdoch
Re: Stealth mode - New Generation Ropes

Would simply putting a twisted loop in the eye of the drogue line before cow hitching the two bridle lines onto the loop cure two of the mentioned problems - the radius of the cow hitches is...
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