IN the good ole days (and California contests) we used to use spliced line from Memphis Twine. It was fine for years but as airframes improved, winch motors standardized, and skill levels rose, the spliced line started breaking... a lot. So one day someone posts a note looking for a different source....Mark pops up with a new source that turns out is every bit as good as he (and we hoped it would be)...and line breaks went away, at least from bad line (it can still get cuts and ground damaged). The guys who feel that only they know 'how' to launch imply that a line break is now caused by launch abuse or a lack of understanding of the use of launch technique. So if anyone this season breaks a line, he'll be banished and embarrassed, but likely those of great insight will come to provide launch skill enlightenment. The new big planes that pull hard (Sharon, Icon, Perfect) finally had a launch that was up to their abilities and that just made things more fun. I have to grin at the shouts and touts of launch system limiters....our hobby is in its twilight, its already expensive and NO one is going to just dump their club winches and anty up cash for something less. It ain't gonna happen, so take a reality check ;-). Then we have the hard liners: "If you break a line you have to fly it out!" :-( Grrrrr! Last I checked we have pretty much decided that MOM is more fun, and it ain't MOM if one of our buddies doesn't get a launch. And last I checked we don't accuse friends of winch line abuse. Friends, its the reason we do contests, to share a day of soaring, a chance to compare our skills with others, a chance to see where the bench mark of skill is compared to our own. Pretty sure Mark still can get that line and will ship it west of the Miss :-).
And of course, don't get it wet....it is fishing line, so has been engineered to work best when dry. :-) Gordy **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004)
