[Rhodes22-list] New Traveler

[Stan Spitzer]

Easiest ways to order these days is to e-mail your phone number (and 
shipping address) so the office can call you to take any credit card 
info over the phone.

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On 10/24/17 1:22 PM, Mark Olson wrote:
> I called the factory - 252-312-9485
>
> Mark Olson
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Susan Crane
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 12:01 PM
> To: 'The Rhodes 22 Email List'
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] New Traveler
>
> Ditto.  I imagined that it would be more expensive.
>
> Susan Crane
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rhodes22-list [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On 
> Behalf Of Lowe, Rob
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 10:48 AM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] rigging my Rhodes
>
> Stan,
> I'm interested in  the new traveler system.  How do I go about getting 
> one? Just call the factory?  Thanks. - rob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rhodes22-list [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On 
> Behalf Of Stan Spitzer
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 7:25 AM
> To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] rigging my Rhodes
>
>
> In the humble opinion of the GB engineering department, this system is 
> 100% wrong.   One of the advantages of a loose footed sail is the ease 
> and degree of draft setting it allows. However you do not want drat 
> setting to take the sail out of its being in the same plane as its 
> boom.  To do so would depreciate the value of the traveler in 
> pointing. Therefore setting up the connection of the main sail to the 
> out-haul car so this distance from said car to the sail is variable, 
> is undesirable.
>
> With the GB system the sail is "hard wired" (is fixed) to the out-haul 
> car so that no matter what draft is set in the sail by your 
> positioning of the out-haul car, the sail remains in the same plane as 
> the boom. This makes the traveler a much more efficient aid in 
> pointing ability.
>
> The GB new traveler system invention, with its single endless push or 
> pull control line that requires no cleating, therefor allowing for 
> comfortable use of the traveler regardless of the captain's preferred 
> port or starboard perch, encourages the use of a traveler for so much 
> better sailing performance.
>
> A valuable upgrading for any Rhodes not already having a GBTSI: $495 
> for non C of S community members.  $395 for C of S sailors.
>
> stan
>