Oh, have I got my terminology wrong? I was thinking of putting the safety leash ahead of the QR untwist knob block thingy on the depower PU tube, so if I release the QR I'm basically leashed to both center lines...
I guess on my Cabrinha kites that's just the same as letting go of the bar. Tend to only do that if I'm really ass over tea kettle and have no idea which way is up or where the kite is. Even that doesn't happen often.
The idea is to replace the *@#%! FLS by attaching both front lines to the "swivel" and so get rid of that stupid weak point at the stopper...
I rigged up a mini-5th today, and got to "test" it on the water for a short foil.
I have two 2018 Cabrinha Recoil bars; one has a trim strap that's about the snap, the other had the broken front line. I put the lower front line from the trim strap bar onto the snapped line bar, lark's headed onto the stopper bracket thingy so that's two front lines with sleeves at the loops now. I used the unsleeved FLS lower front line from the strap bar, attached it to the lower landing/safety line with the bungy in, then lark's headed it to where the lower front line joins (Cab has two-piece front lines). I added a guide ring for my mini-5th at the bracket thing... the left hand part of my picture below...
As expected, it was a tad "short"... so until the front lines were fully loaded the mini-5th took the load. Easily fixed. Self-landed on it, seemed to work fine
Here's an idea (on the right) for the mini-5th to stop it twisting up -- any reason this is a bad idea?