Re: Topping lift

Bill Blohm (bblohm@boi.hp.com)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 18:04:03 -0600


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Eric, this is the one I currently have. It's unsatisfactory
when I need to drop the sail fast, as I did once last weekend,
because you have to get the boom inboard to hook it in. That's
why I'm interested in a more permanent backstay and possibly
the lazy jacks.

> Mine is simply a boom lift that is a snap shackle attached to a foot or so
> of cable, nicopressed to the backstay. Works for me.

Bill B.
P-19 #454 "Dream Catcher"
Nampa, ID