Talk:Preventer

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This article seems partly how-to information, and partly information on rigging, so I've left it in the general sailing category as well as adding it to the rigging category. Andrewa 21:05, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Seems a little paranoid to me - firstly the notion that a preventer *must* be rigged whenever the wind is aft of the beam, and secondly the procedure for gybing the boom under rigid control from two lines. Personally (and this includes the various skippers I've sailed with) I'd only rig a preventer on a near-dead run (rather than anything aft of the beam) that was expected to last some time (hence bored/sloppy helmsman). I'd also strike the preventer before getting ready to gybe and re-rig it afterwards, rather than winching the boom round like a feral dog held by two of those pole-with-loop things.

I don't know how to make the article reflect this. I don't want to cut big swathes out of it, but I also don't want to add the kind of contradictory note you see around Wikipedia where a whole article takes one view but is followed by a section saying "by the way, some people think this is bollocks". If anyone thinks they can combine this view sensitively with the original please do. PeteVerdon 00:39, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Renamed 'gybe' to 'jibe'
I've recently created a disambiguation page at 'Gybe', since it references two particularly different subjects and is used as a search term for both. As such, I've followed the what-links-to for 'Gybe' and edited all the references to it in this article to now be 'jibe' instead, and updated the links to point to 'Jibe' instead. I'm not particularly nautical but I've found the term 'jibe' in use over 'gybe' so I thought this would be acceptable. If not, I guess you can pipe gybe references to 'jibe', or contact me and sort something out. Cheers! Harmonica 06:18, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I think it all looks fine. Well done. I'm English and gybe is the normal spelling here, but as with everything on Wikipedia, if it's spelt the English way, sooner or later an American comes along and changes it all to US spelling!  It's no problem - it was bound to happen eventually.  --Nigelj 20:33, 21 May 2006 (UTC)