...because my shiny new mast extension [from site sponsor] is a mirror image of every other one I've ever seen or used. Perhaps [site sponsor]'s sails rig back-to-front too, port side up.

The cleat is on the left.

This means threading everything back-to-front, which is bloody hard/impossible after all these years, and then ending up with the cleat down in the grass when you go to adjust downhaul. Stupid.

Is this a manufacturing error/refund?

p.s. all the images on their site show it back-to-front.

Severne are configured to rig port side - all the cleats / geometry / boom head orientation / rope pockets for excess rope are configured to be super easy when done this way.

I can rig em both ways no dramas - but port saves about 30 seconds- and makes for great ergonomics
- which could be an extra wave or a jump when you are in a rush after work!

Didnt KA put their Cam pockets on the other side on some sails due to the tack they use at sandy point?

Reflex Films said...
Severne are configured to rig port side - all the cleats / geometry / boom head orientation / rope pockets for excess rope are configured to be super easy when done this way.

[site sponsor] guessed correctly.

I can rig em both ways no dramas - but port saves about 30 seconds- and makes for great ergonomics.

But doesn't it make more sense for right handed/most people to be pushing with the right leg? And how does it save time; it's exactly the same but mirror image?

mark_australia siad...
You people are in a parallel universe.
Never had to think about it or seen anything different......

Tell me about it. If I'd noticed I'd have bought something else.
And people complain about Pryde's mast bend.

Looks like I'm rigging upside down from now on.
- Which means I'll be rolling sail the other way too.
- And threading mirror image.
- Damn it. Boom is going to be uncorrectable!
Bizarro land.

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Well. There it is. Severne sails rig upside down. Who knew?




How anyone can figure it is more ergonomic to be pulling outside your leg is beyond me. A lefty could confirm they've been doing it for years on normal gear.

There's a bad taste in my mouth. That's overkill.
It's bloody annoying though. Now I have to attach the boom on one side, flip the sail, continue rigging the other. Outhaul will be upside down but that's not too bad. Mirrored thread pattern will be fun.

Flipping the sail in wind in a confined area is going to be awkward. And very naff.
How am I saving 30 seconds?

Should come with a warning. Might take it back.

[b]evlPanda said
Should come with a warning. Might take it back.

well it does say "sail for the revolution...."

^^^^^^^^top stuff !!!!!!!!


see, you're getting used to it !!!

Luft goes to the left. It's not right otherwise..

That is fkn weird. Every single extension I have ever had is the other way around.

Yesterday I saw a few people rig new-ish Severnes, with Severne extensions, and do it starboard up like everyone else.

This is like a dream I can't wake up from, unsure what is reality, I'm going to the beach to look before it does my head in.

Anybody notice we're the only species not naked? Why must we be different?

I too once switching to Severne, after fighting it, had to switch to rigging port side up, which as most people have said is counter intuitive ergonomically because as a right hander I want to push with my right leg when downhauling. With the sail sitting port side up the right is the 'inside leg' which means the rope comes over the leg from outside to in, rather staying on the inside of the leg. This is an unnatural line up of forces ergonomically...and it's annoying.

However the reason I do it has less to do with the cleat position on the extension (a minor issue, it works both ways imo) and more to do with the fact that the boom goes on far easier with the sail on that side, and the elastic/hook when rolled up only really work if you roll the sail port side up. My conclusion is that Ben must be left leg/handed

Certainly a bit of a pain when your quiver is a mix of port-side Severnes and other sails rigged on starboard-side (like my quiver). Also, I've used a Streamlined RDM extension for many years and have never been able to get the rope aligned correctly and the pulleys working properly when I use it with Severne sails (ended up using an Aeron extension when I rig a Severne which works well).

Never knew we sailboarders were such a spatially challenged lot. Anyone here have to turn the map around?

You don't have to flip it Anita, just rotate it. eg in a seabreeze I have the mast tip to the north of the beach (NE really) and in a winter northwesterly the mast tip is pointing to as S - SSE.

Much easier to rig if you don't flip it, so the rope threading is always the same etc.

Old arrows SDM extensions rig this way, as well. So perhaps their sails did to?

All my sails are Severne, for the booms (tecnolimits) I just undid the clamp, and put it back the opposite(correct way). The big sails have 4 pullies, and SDM have 4 rollers which make it feasible for me down haul by hand.

I just rig the thing however it lands when I throw it on the ground... same for rolling it back up.?

I like pic 5b for how to roll the sail.

The fact somebody is rolling it whilst wearing 3/4 arm length skivvy at the beach (must be trying to appeal to the German market??) is offset by the very realistic crinkled leech.