In the pursuit of friendly competition (gps challenge) have managed to dent the wallet a tad..

www.seabreeze.com.au/gallery/gallery.asp?imageid=6066
www.seabreeze.com.au/gallery/gallery.asp?imageid=6065

So far..
Boom (as pictured above)
5.8 sail (broken batten and tear)
Bruised ego
Hopefully no more!

Anybody else keeping the retailers cashed up ?!?

Red

Cost of having your lines too close together?

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Originally posted by vando

Here's a question what breaks more gear waves or speed .
I generally just break booms and not necessarily by crashing either.

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Good question Vando.
Normally wave sailing I'm much less powered up, I tune for control not speed, but I've bent a few booms, from bad landings, and ripped a sail or 2 on the reef. Mind you I don't go out if it's bigger than logo high, and the waves here are fairly mellow.

Speed sailing, (and I include blasting around well powered up on wave gear in protected waters), I've snapped harness lines, harness cleats and straps, and just recently disintegrated a carbon boom. Catapaults are much more lively at speed well powered.

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Originally posted by elmo

Whatever you can do I can do Better.

Heres the results of Decrep's recent efforts. Breaking the cardinal rule of trying to "do stuff" in front of a camera.

www.seabreeze.com.au/gallery/gallery.asp?imageid=6094&shownew=on
www.seabreeze.com.au/gallery/gallery.asp?imageid=6093&shownew=on

Thats a Carbon boom by the by

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Hey Elmo,

Your a flang and gasket man, get your engineering crew to come up with a flang and gasket fix, may be some 4mm stainless steel with bolts shoud do the trick, yeah sure your speeds will be slow but nothing will break ;)

Hahah nice job Elmoing Decrepit.

GT

Hey Haggar,

I've got a spare boom arm, exactly that model, glad to give it to ya if it saves you some coin.

I was going to make a comment about how I busted the head of my boom but then thought it might be in poor taste.

On Sunday we had the best wind for quite sometime(20-25 knots, gusts to 40knts)
I rigged my 5.8 got suited up GPS's turned on picked up my gear and the mast snapped.
Couldn't believe it, in a way i was lucky it happen on shore than out on the water and the broken mast didn't damage my sail.
Not having a spare i rigged my 4.8m hucker and went for abit of a blast packed up and went home

Hey Haggar was that the boom you bought last month?

Hey Haggar,

Since i'm in the market for a new boom .. how do the loft booms go?

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Originally posted by MintoxGT



Hahah nice job Elmoing Decrepit.

GT

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Thanks Mintox.
It was right after that thread of Ocean Girl's talking about catapults. I thought one of the best pieces of advice was to hang on to the boom no mater what, stops harness lines twisting on to the hook.
So really big catapult, hung onto boom alright, but wouldn't have mattered if I had got tangled up with it. Cause I came up holding that very small section.

Snapped a fin today, not at the base, about half way down. Spun out a little bit, then recovered and posted best speed for the session 32.4kn, felt very strange when I slowed down and tried to gybe but.

It's one of my experimental cedar and carbon fins, my fault I'd put an extra layer of carbon from base to half way up, but cut it off square instead of tapering it, made a stress point there. Surprising how much load there is on the end section of the fin, I new in theory I should have tapered it, but thought, the single carbon layer area was small enough for it not to matter.