R22 Discussion Group

JD,

In the humble opinion of the GB engineering department, this system is 
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One of the advantages of a loose footed sail is the ease and degree of 
draft setting it allows. However you do not want drat setting to take 
the sail out of its being in the same plane as its boom.  To do so would 
depreciate the value of the traveler in pointing. Therefore setting up 
the connection of the main sail to the out-haul car so this distance 
from said car to the sail is variable, is undesirable.

With the GB system the sail is "hard wired" (is fixed) to the out-haul 
car so that no matter what draft is set in the sail by your positioning 
of the out-haul car, the sail remains in the same plane as the boom.  
This makes the traveler a much more efficient aid in pointing ability.

The GB new traveler system invention, with its single endless push or 
pull control line that requires no cleating, therefor allowing for 
comfortable use of the traveler regardless of the captain's preferred 
port or starboard perch, encourages the use of a traveler for so much 
better sailing performance.

A valuable upgrading for any Rhodes not already having a GBTSI: $495 for 
non C of S community members.  $395 for C of S sailors.

stan

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The Rhodes 22 Discussion Group

stan spitzer

rigging my Rhodes