pierrec45 said...

do you still find us useful monkeyrelish ??

Yep still plenty of useful comments

The main reason for keeping the board fin down is the top is pretty much level and seeing as I intend on strapping the mast,sail etc to it pretty tightly.. I was concerned that if I did this with the board upside down the curve of the board could stress the mast/board and cause issues..

Now that it's stopped raining I can practice rigging the whole thing up.. plenty of vids on youtube showing newer style rigs but not older ones.. will nut it out i'm sure..

Righto.. so again thanks for the help so far...

Now I'm back again for some rigging advice..

The boom is connected to the mast using rope and a tension clip? I have tried a few different ways of routing the rope but each time the boom feels a bit loose, just doesn't feel right.

The mast clips in nicely to the boom bracket but I seem to have trouble from there.
I have searched on the net but have not had much luck so far.. I am starting to wonder if the bracket is missing some bits after seeing so many pictures of clip on booms.







Cheers

Hey Monkey whatever
check the photos i have uploaded of a similar old style front clamp boom. The rope should start on one side of the clamp, work its way around the mast onto a "hook", then back around the mast and to the other side of the clamp. That way, when you twist the clamp, it pulls on the "loop" you have created on the "hook". I notice there is a semi circle notch, or cut out, which the clamp would go down flat over. I have a memory of these old booms using that notch to hold the rope that has gone around the mast before it returns back around to the clamp. MMM, not much help am i. I've still got an old omega, its around 25 years old and I still use it from time to time. Very fast but very unstable. I would hate to teach someone on it. Good luck. Gary from Coffs.

It looks similar to the Hydrodynamix enduro boom (had one, great 'cheap' boom) but without the option to double up the rope. The rope should go around the mast, over that notch & back around the mast to the clamp? Not 100% sure, but check out the image on their website - it might help. At worst, you can buy new boom heads if yours is missing parts.

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