My back has been marginal (or worse) for about 25 years.
You should seriously consider accelerating you waterstart
instruction. I don't know how well the easy uphaul works because
I've never tried one. You might want to consider a crank
(or some other mechanical contrivance) for downhauling your sail
also.
On May 1, 1:47=A0pm, bertbarndoor <bertbarnd...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I am probably going to be uphauling exclusively and for a while. I
> can't see water starts for a while. I was thinking of getting the
> dakine ez-haul (something like that) that let's you lean with your
> harness to begin the uphaul process. I guess if I went with the 7
> that'd be a good idea??? I already have a marginal back, fyi...
> Thanks for the info btw...
>
> -rob
>
> On Apr 29, 12:11 am, morefor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Not sure if the others considered this, but if you are a beginner you
> > are uphauling still? =A0Learned to waterstart yet? =A0Anything over
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> > 7 m is a bear for me to uphaul, and several top racers have ended
> > their careers with back issues from uphauling 10 or 11 m sails
> > (probably frantically in a race environment where they didn't feel
> > it). =A0The 6.5 may be a better bet from this point of view. =A0If you
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> > learning to waterstart, though, you want all the power you can get so
> > if you sail in light wind the bigger sail would be better in the long
> > run. =A0Its probably =A0easiest to take a holiday somewhere warm and
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