Re: How to make a high Y bar ?
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 3:06 pm
Splice a short length of line into your line to make a loop. Is that now how the manufacturers do it?
The manufacturers do it by splicing the 2 center lines into 1 at the Y so there are 5 lines at the kite and only 4 lines at the bar. Or if you are using a mini-5th instead of true 5th, you would have 4 lines at the kite and 3 lines at the bar.
Can you please expain further? I dont understand why v-bar designed kites would not work well with a y-bar while y-bar designed kites would fly fine with v-bars.
Do the search, this topic has been mulled around for ages. Basically it comes down to the fact that high-Y configurations tend to pull kite's wingtips towards each other a lot more than V-configurations. As such, kites designed to be flown on high-Y bars work fine on V-bars, but there were negative reports about the other way around - and some kites designed to be flown on V-bars don't really like to be pinched-in with high-Y bars, thus - it is not recommended. Granted that it most likely affects bigger sizes with larger arcs. You'd have to be super-anal to notice any difference on sizes smaller than 9m.