{"id":2085,"date":"2022-09-19T19:07:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T19:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2022-09-19T19:07:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T19:07:24","slug":"twings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/twings\/","title":{"rendered":"Twings"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

People kept asking if I would do a video tour of Samsara. It wasn\u2019t that I was trying to hide anything, but rather I couldn\u2019t work out how to do it while holding the phone in one hand. Then last week, my son Hugo came to join me in Jersey, and we ended up in St Malo and the River Rance \u2013 where a windless and sunny morning provided the perfect opportunity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

You can find it on the Oldmansailing YouTube channel \u2013 I\u2019ll add the link below. However, I should mention here the one thing I forgot to include – twings (no, I didn\u2019t know what they were either).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

For years aboard Largo<\/em>,\u00a0 I\u00a0 had struggled to find a way of adjusting the genoa cars without getting wet. In the end. The mistake I made was trying to move the cars remotely. All I needed was leave them where they were and add a pair of twings.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

A twing (don\u2019t you just love the name?) is a ring around a sheet and a line to pull it down – so adjusting the angle of pull. With mine, the lines go forward to a redundant deck fitting and then back to a pair of jammers in the cockpit. All I have to do is pull them in before I start winching the sheet \u2013 and then let them out until I\u2019m happy with the set of the sail. It\u2019s cheap. It\u2019s simple \u2013 and it works.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Meanwhile, here\u2019s the rest of the tour: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCdcR6l3UFssnS6zVPU96UAg<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People kept asking if I would do a video tour of Samsara. It wasn\u2019t that I was trying to hide anything, but rather I couldn\u2019t work out how to do it while holding the phone in one hand. Then last week, my son Hugo came to join me in Jersey, and we ended up in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}