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Jib sheet questions and hand wringing
I'm against that also. Jib sheets should be tied with a bowline with 6
inches or so of bitter end. The boat I sail on regularly has fairly old running rigging, certainly none of it hi-tech. Some of it is quite stiff, but it's still workable. Never had a problem, but I'm not saying it's impossible. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com wrote in message oups.com... I'm with you here, well tied bowlines shouldn't come loose often. I've had it happen a few times on a lazy sheet but I've had more sheets break than bowlines wiggle loose. I really don't like putting hardware onto the clews of non-boomed jibs. Jibs will flog and eventually somebody will get hit by them. I nearly lost my brother when he was hit by a jib that had tied sheets on it. Knocked him out cold and I'm sure he'd be dead if we'd had hardware on the clew. -- Tom |