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I agree, but I have had two DaKine SS hooks snap with a helluva retort when hit by extreme gusts on big (for me) sails.

I've never had a Reactor roller bar fail if the screw is kept snug, includin ...

Engineering 201: Consider the load case and design for an appropriate factor of safety.

Countless mechanical systems have concentrated loadings. There is plenty of room in the design of a boom to m ...

Nothing in the previous comments indicates that line length had anything to do with the boom breaking... nothing. I'd bet that the amount of force seen by a boom with long lines in the same place and ...

How about a short wave fin, soft rails, and an RAF? Many of us don't own own a cam, a sharp rail, or a large fin.

Every sail has camber regardless of whether it has a camber inducer. Some li ...

I don't really see it as an argument, and I don't really think that this entire thread is directed at Iso. I find the mechanics of windsurfing to be interesting, worthy of discussion. I like long line ...

What if it were true that in a given wave sailing session that 90% of the time was spent slogging and positioning to catch a wave and 10% of the time were spent riding DTL?
They would have to be epic ...

He's out there to ride the waves, not for slogging. Does he go DTL hooked in? One of the reasons I quit skiing was the time wasted on lifts; I realize that slogging is a necessary evil in a true wave ...

12 foot hawaiian waves ... pretty sure those are 34's.
Unless he goes DTL hooked in, isn't line length irrelevant to his reason for being out there?

No, because he is able to easily slog a board-s ...

As I mentioned before, I went to Pritchard's clinic. I asked lot's of questions (too many, he probably remembers me as being "that irritating question guy"). I was told that having longer l ...

I think that there are a lot of variables here. Some that have not been considered.

* Sailor ability affects length. When I was starting, I liked shorter lines because I was more afraid to commit t ...