Re: Gear Check

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From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>
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Subject: Re: Gear Check

> My second event was having my rig and board separate in the middle of the
> Columbia at Doug's Beach, on a light, late afternoon with just two of us out.
> I had the choice of keeping the rig, or trying to swim after the board.
> I made the second choice, but too late, as it cruised upriver with the wind.
> That left me with nothing to do but swim, swim, swim. My buddy did sail
> across the river and fetch my board back (thanks again Chris!) after I
> landed and walked a quarter mile back to the park and told him about
> it, but the rig was an offering.

Nowadays, I have a 1" carabiner (snap link) on the end of my uphaul. I
clip my uphaul into a little loop of rope in the front of my mast track.
It only occasionally needs unwinding.

Ken

"Navigare necesse est." [To sail is necessary.]
                                                  -- Gnaeus Pompeius

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