BOL - HELP

[D-Alien]

Well as some of you know i was in the middle of building a largish BOL - Now i have come across a problem

I seem to have lost the Destructions

Where am i now - i have built the bol itself, if memory serves me right its an 8m bol with 144 segments

but now i have no destructions for bridle line lengths etc, its pretty obvious where they are going to go on the bol but how long

If anybody knows the whereabouts of plans on the net for an 8m bol i would appreciate a linky to them

Thanks

Dave

[Bonefish]

www.idemployee.id.tue.nl/p.j.f.peters/kites/plans/spinchute/spinchute.html

I'm sure Alan may have the solution, if this is no help!

[D-Alien]

Hi Tony

Yes i saw this earlier and was looking at it its a 4m so i was thinking just double the lengths of the bridle line an mine is double the size.

I think it certainly has possibilities, whats the worst that can happen, it doesnt work and goes back in its suitcase into early retirement....

[Bonefish]

When i made mine, i had short bridles to start so connected 2 teeth to one short bridle then had 1 long bridle per 2 teeth.
So 60 panels = 30 shot bridles and 15 long bridles to the swivel.
Works ok, i suppose you would need the bridles about 15 metres long or so to allow the bol to open to full otherwise it may not fully open!

[amk]

Hi Dave,

This plan: www.kiteplans.org/planos/rotating/rotating.html contains a link to a javascript programme which will calculate bridle lengths (as well as everything else) for a bol.

Cheers, Alan.