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Kiwi Slides |
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Kiwi Slides are designed for use with the
Reef-Rite furler — we even include a batch with your roller furler order
— but they can also be used in place of luff tape on a headsail luff and
as slugs on a mainsail luff.
They are normally sewn to the sail luff or can be laced through eyelets,
and are actually stronger than the sail itself. |
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They provide 50% less friction than luff tape
when hoisting or lowering a headsail.
By using Kiwi Slides you have a captive luff at all times — the same as
with hanked-on sails — which allows you to load or unload one sail while
the other is working, if you have a double-groove luff extrusion.
For short-handed crew, Kiwi Slides provide easy, safe, handling for single
and twin sails. |
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| Sail conversion is easier and cheaper than luff
tape. More than 3,500 sails have been fitted with Kiwi Slides; ask your
sailmaker to use them for your next sail conversion instead of luff tape. |
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Kiwi Slides are manufactured from Dupont Zytel
FE15015, a glass filled nylon, with heavy Dacron tape tails (also
available with extra long tails). |
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| Note: The above breaking strain tests were
carried out on Reef-Rite foil extrusions. During the tests, the extrusion
began to spread before any sign of Kiwi Slide failure. Other foil
extrusions may not reach these figures. |
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Copyright 2007 by Desktop
Wings, Inc. |