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[stroke survivor]

Pete - you joker you!! I am serious about the color coding though, it saves me from getting things messed up on setup!!

[Rigster]

--Pete - I see the sense in swapping top / bottom as opposed to left / right if you were to swap them over. Is line stretch a real issue these days? I'm guessing not by the comments posted here ... On the subject of swapping bottom lines over & seeing how you get on did you ever try, as a kid, riding your bike with your hands on the opposite grips? I did. Kerb stones in this area are cut granite. I know that from having my face planted on one.

I'm going to do as you do Wayne & colour code each corner - it'll take some of the confusion out of setting up.

Plod / Baloo - where do I find out about the better flying days please?

[stroke survivor]

Pete - you joker you! I just find that coloring the lines helps me setup correctly more often than not! And if that leads to more flying and less messing......

[--Pete]

To be honest, I too, am a color coder. Red/green for left/right (I'm also a boater, so I follow the nautical rule of Red Left Port*) and black/white for top/bottom. Each line-end gets one or two dabs (white is a no-dab) with markers.


====footnotes======
* Easy to remember: Think of Red, the old sailor as he left port, with the red buoys on the left, the red running lights on left/port side of the boat. Unfortunately this only works in about half the world (so-called B-buoyage areas, mostly the Americas) where colored buoys are placed with the reds on the left hand side of the channel as you go down-stream or leave port; green on the other side. The other half of the world (A-buoyage, Europe, Asia/with some exceptions, Australia) places the buoy colors just the opposite, but keeps the red running lights on the left or port side of the boat.

BTW, the "Red Left Port" mnemonic is my own invention. If you google for the phrase in quotes [ "red left port" ] you will find that I originated it. A lot of people use it now. It always annoyed me that the traditional B-buoyage mnemonic of "red right return" didn't also work for the lights on the boat, so I came up with my own. If you see the parenthetical comment (not some nasty old port), you will know that it has a direct connection to my original post in the rec.boats newsgroup sometime back in the 1980s or 1990s.

[RevWizard]

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* Easy to remember: Think of Red, the old sailor as he left port, with the red buoys on the left, the red running lights on left/port side of the boat.

I learned to remember this to think Port Wine. Port wine is red. Port and Left, both have four letters in them.
Red Port Left
Green Starboard Right

My left lines have red markings. My right lines have green markings.
My lower lines have an extra black marking. I never swapped upper and lower lines as some like to do.

[stroke survivor]

I used to sail too, but my markings are red for right, black for left!! If I have white sleeving, then I mark the tops with just a little color on the knots, then color the bottoms all over the sleeving!! Two colors, in my line bag for touch up, and I'm good to go!! The nautical approach is nice, too!! I haven't found line stretch to be much of a problem if they are properly stretched first, and then adjusted once or twice! Might be a factor if flown consistently in high winds!!??

Edited by stroke victim, 12 November 2010 - 10:17 AM.

[Baloo]

Plod / Baloo - where do I find out about the better flying days please?

Look on the Stack UK site http://www.stackuk.o...x.php?section=7 they are a good bunch of folks. I have joined if only for the Insurance that it offers you. Very important that you have kit flying insurance in my opinion.

Some of the folks are a bit intense, but mostly they are all happy to help you out. Not too many Rev flyers amongst them, however there are some REAL good ones in there. Chris Goff is CRAZY good with a Rev for instance.