The Captains Nemesis wrote:

Remember the Loveday loop?

Nope, neareest I could find on a quick search was this
http://www.baaths.com/s77.html
The site is worth a look, we've been using a variaotion on this
compass for 30 years!

They's sold backwards scaled compasses for decades, and I've had paired compasses
for port & starboard on several boats. But OTOH it's fairly easy to remember that on
starboard tack, higher is better.

About the Loveday Loop... hate to be dense but I can't quite see what the radio
ariel gizmo is. It looks like they've replaced the traveler with a post to get the
mainsheet horizontal. I've seen this done on 470s and 505s with a upside down "U"
that we used to call either a crash bar or whammy bar. Makes a nice handhold for
roll tacks, too. It's a good system.

At first I though you were talking about the old fashioned mainsheet system where
the sheet & blocks form an upside down "V" at the back of the cockpit. There are
still a bunch of Lightnings rigged with those, but they aren't the competitive
ones.....

Fresh Breezes- Doug King