[quote=rungi]I do not agree that is has no strength in the fore aft direction. otherwise a windy day would be dangerous.
but pulling it from a certain positions could damage it. I am not sure.
It would be interesting experiment to lift the entire boat from various places on the dolphin striker rod after all the nacra 5.7 weighs 360 pounds should be able to easily support that load. if not the rod should be thicker in my opinion and is an easily correctable engineering mistake.
If one hang weights from rods, which is common, how much weight is actually required to bend the rod from the center point. It is an interesting question. and can be proved experimentally and most likely well known by any metal manufacturing company.[/quote]
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