Allow spreaders acting only in tension ?
Posted: 11 Jul 2006, 14:22
Hi All,
See my post "chafing patch in mainsail" for an introduction.
To all owners:
would it be a good idea to introduce a class rule change that would reverse the decision of a recent interpretation which ruled that spreaders must act in compression ?
This would allow the use of a piece of string as a short 'spreader'. Some people think this works fine, and the rule change would allow a simplification in the case where short spreaders are used.
See my post "chafing patch in mainsail" for an introduction.
To all owners:
would it be a good idea to introduce a class rule change that would reverse the decision of a recent interpretation which ruled that spreaders must act in compression ?
This would allow the use of a piece of string as a short 'spreader'. Some people think this works fine, and the rule change would allow a simplification in the case where short spreaders are used.