PeteCress wrote:
Before I try to replicate your extension, I am going to work some more with FusionEng's idea of thin PVC over the halyard as it exits the Mast Tip Rotator. ..... Already tried it on the aft section and it survived a couple of furls.... but hung up on the third. ..... So now I have to try it fore and aft.
It is looking like FusionEng's suggested workaround using PVC over the halyard fore and aft might do the job well enough.
Sail slack enough, pull the roller reef line hard enough... and I can still wrap the halyard around the mast but now it is recoverable.
Here's what it looks like hung with the PVC:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1081497986 ... 2506507778The PVC keeps the line from getting wrapped around the batten end and, so far, tightening up on the mainsheet un-furls the sail as per usual..... and then I can attempt the reef again only slower and with more tension on the main sheet.
I am going to shorten the aft PVC to the same length as the fore because the critical distance seems to be long enough so the PVC, instead of the halyard line, hits the end of the #1 batten.
Then I'll test some more and, if it still seems to have promise, take it to the local mudhole where, worse-comes-to-worst, I get blown to a non-threatening shore no matter what the wind direction.
fusioneng wrote:
I went thru the reacher design with Jim the day before the 2015 EC, tryin unsuccessfuly to help with suggestions on how to improve the design. He knows I have a similar design that I've been running trouble free for 6 yrs now (actually most of the components are still the original components with a gazzilian sailing miles on them).
To be honest I was more than a little shocked that the final released design is exactly the same design. Which I kind of told him at the time kinda sucked. Oh well I tried.
If this design really is as fatally-flawed as it seems to me to be (as opposed to my doing something wrong - which still is not out of the question), I would think that Hobie has some serious exposure to lawsuits here - witness Capt'nChaos' experience in a busy channel.
Bunch of years ago, I had a suspension seatpost fail on me during normal bicycle riding . ..... I lucked out and escaped serious injury..... Called Cane Creek, the manufacturer, and told them they had a design problem... and, of course, they blew me off.
Fast forward a year or three and I found myself giving videotaped testimony in a (successful) big-bucks lawsuit against Cane Creek by a guy in California whose life and body were basically ruined when his Cane Creek suspension seatpost failed in the same way mine did - but without the luck factor.
Dunno if insurance covered Cane Creek's loss - or if anybody even cared.... but this is starting to feel like "Deja Vu all over again" to me.
tonystott wrote:
...Pete. Penguinman used the prototype reacher in the 2015 EC Challenge, using a 2015 AI.
I find that interesting - and suggestive that my problems still might be user error on my part.
I would like to hear a frank discussion from Penguinman about his hands-on experience using this exact same design (?) in the 2015 EC Challenge.
If he made it through the EC Challenge without any of the problems we have been experiencing
and it was the same implementation.... that would seem to speak for user error on our part.
On the other hand....
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