[C320-list] Asymetric tacker using "Parrell Beads"

[Denny Browne]

http://sailingsource.com/neilpryde/store/beads.htm I'd be worried about
drilling holes in golf balls. I bought a set of wooden balls at a craft
supply store about a year ago to try to make them myself. I was going to use
a piece of Spectra line, which is really slippery and high strength, but
they're still in the garage and I'm still using my cracked ATN Tacker, which
works fine. For $52 at Neil Pryde (google Neil Pryde Parrel Beads, if the
link above doesn't come through), that might be the way to go.

Denny Browne
A Cappella #935
Redondo Beach

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:c320-list-bounces at catalina320.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Freedman
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 4:51 AM
To: C320-List
Subject: Re: [C320-list] Asymetric tacker using "Parrell Beads"

Neil Pryde sails has a web a site for parrel bead tacker

Art Freedman
Ivy Girl -C310




http://www.sailingsource.com/neilpryde/store/beads.htm
On Aug 14, 2007, at 9:36 PM, Irv Grunes wrote:

>
>
> Guys,
> Some time back someone on the list talked about how they made an  
> asym tacker
> with "parrel beads"
>
> Searched the c320 website and could not find the reference.
>
> On a sailboatowners.com list some one said to take golf balls and  
> drill a
> 1/4 inch hole through and then string them on a line.
>
> Look at page 40 of this site to see what parrel beads are and how  
> they were
> used on wooden mast boats.
>
> http://woodturners.org/tall-ships/top_sail_youth.pdf
>
>
> Irv Grunes
> #851
>
>
>

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Hawthorne Animal Health Care
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