Well I may be old school but I believe in KISS. Yeah you do potentially end
up using as much as 8' total of trap line and in light trapping conditions
you will have quite a bit of slack in that, but in those conditions you
have much more problems in generating boat speed than a slack line
periodically skipping across the water.
Ron Radko and I were in the Gorge a few weekends back and Murphy proved his
presence. I hooked up and went out in a puff, looking to accelerate the
boat and tack since I was near shore and shallow water, and the trap hook
snapped at the billet sending me into the water and the boat upside down.
Putting a second block into the trap config increases your likelihood of
line twist and of gear failure.
KISS
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Harper [mailto:rharper@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:55 AM
To: swiftsolo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Trap Setup
I've done something like this on my boat and love it. I used it a lot a
few weeks back sailing on Bear Lake with Mark White and David Kerr. We had
winds ranging from 5kts to 30kts and when it was marginal trapping for me,
it was much nicer to be able to trap higher. The advantage of the two
stage system is you don't end up with 30' of line draggin when trapping
very high. Only two slightly long tails instead of one very long one. Also
I can adjust whil on the wire without having to come in and adjust a slip
splice. This is also nice in areas that tend to have very variable
conditions where you go from high to low trapping very often. The winds we
were in, I could have adjusted the trap almost as much as the sheets if I
had one more hand.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:11:21 -0600, Keith Councell
<keithcouncell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ron,
>
> I was hope you could lets us know what you thoughts were on the trap
> system you were using in Florida.
>
> Attached is a rough drawing of the system as I remember it...
>
> I've been think about going to it but I wanted to hear your thoughts
> before I made the change.
>
> Thanks,
> Keith Councell
>
>
>
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