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 Post subject: FX One trap lines
PostPosted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 8:54 am 
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Anyone got the measurements in English on the trap lines for an FX One? The FX One is not on the wire guide.

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 Post subject: Re: FX One trap lines
PostPosted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:35 pm 
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Just make them whatever length you want. I splice the top, then just adjust the handle height with the boat rigged. It also gives you a chance to get some weight on them and stretch them in prior to leaving the beach.

I use the Robline 3mm dyneema, it's the easiest I've used so far.


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 Post subject: Re: FX One trap lines
PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 6:03 am 
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Hobie sell an adjustable arrangement so you can fiddle with your trap line as you sail. Have a look at that.


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 Post subject: Re: FX One trap lines
PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 9:56 am 
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A dog bone is all you need for adjustment on the water.

Granted, I have long arms, but the handles are always set way too low. When on the wire they should be almost out of reach. With your arm extended is where you have the most strength. If you're pulling yourself up at a low handle height, it is really hard, or at least harder than it needs to be. That's the sweetest thing to me about using line for trapezes, it is extremely simple to customize them. Factory stuff is made to fit everyone, so it doesn't work for hardly anyone well.


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 Post subject: Re: FX One trap lines
PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 11:08 am 
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Are you saying you use line instead of Wire (coming down from the Mast Tang) for your lines??


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 Post subject: Re: FX One trap lines
PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 11:24 am 
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The stock trap lines are spectra on FX 1's

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 Post subject: Re: FX One trap lines
PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:15 pm 
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ok, what is Spectra?


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 Post subject: Re: FX One trap lines
PostPosted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:46 pm 
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sxrracer wrote:
Are you saying you use line instead of Wire (coming down from the Mast Tang) for your lines??



Correct. For the trapeze. I don't trust my splicing abilities to do the standing rigging that way, though there are plenty of boats that have it. Rod rigging is really the way to go there, but stupid expensive. Zero stretch, you set rig tension, and it's there.

Spectra, dyneema, same stuff. Just a high tech line. 1/8 is just as strong as it's wire component. I think it breaks around 1200#'s For trap lines I just use a single braid 12 pleat(sp). Amsteel is a 10 I believe, and it's a MF'r to get a fid through. That and the Robline are the only two I've really played with.


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 Post subject: Re: FX One trap lines
PostPosted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 10:19 am 
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Here are the measurements that i got from Hobie France

The trapeze wire for FX-One with wings is longer than the one without
17560560 : 5930 mm
17560570 : 5680 mm

If you are using the adjustable option, you'll have to shorten the wire/spectra 100-140mm

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 Post subject: Re: FX One trap lines
PostPosted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:39 am 
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Yeah, thank you, pbekkerh. I did a search and found where you had posted that in another thread. The old trap lines measured 19' 4 3/4". 5930 mm is about 19' 5".

So Karl is right too. Make them just out of reach. The Einstein of the cat sailors, he is.

Last year, one of the spare set of trap lines came untied somehow. Luckily it came fluttering down from the mast tang before being hooked up to anything. Never figured out what happened. It has a brummel bury splice and once the eye is locked it is can't come untied, so I thought. It wasn't cut either. It was a scary dark mystery...


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