1 Video View·Aug 25, 2026 #sailing #OXLEY #BORA After flying our parasailor for two years, I noticed that the snuffer line was getting shorter each time we used it. As you can imagine, this was concerning and even worse if we didn't address the issue head on. Check out our video to see what we did and if it solved the problem!
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Hey there everyone. Thanks so much for watching. A huge shout out to our patrons. Thank you so much
for your support for our videos and what we're doing here and a huge thank you as well to you
as viewers. Our two most popular videos have been our parasail videos and we wanted to do a follow
up video because we have noticed something that could have been a big issue if we didn't address
it. So we want to address it and share what we learned with you guys so that you don't run into
a major issue that could occur if you don't handle this correctly and in a timely manner. So
what we noticed over time was that the snuffer line on our parasail was getting shorter and
shorter. When we first started using our parasailer we could easily tie the snuffer
line to the trampoline. Okay really important to tie this down so that you don't lose it.
And over time the line was getting shorter and eventually it wouldn't reach the trampoline or
the bow cleat so we had to tie it to the roof handle instead and I became concerned that with
the shortening of that line something was wrong. So I threw it out into the Oxley group and a lot of
other Oxley users said that they had the same problem and at one point when they tried to snuff
their parasailer it wouldn't come down because there was a twist. Either the sail had twisted
or the snuffer line had twisted around the sail. They weren't sure but they had some issues with
tears and some damage to their sail. So we wanted to address that immediately. Friends of ours on
Valentin thanks Juergen and Heidi for the idea. They just pulled the sock back and they were able
to straighten out the sail so we wanted to share that process now. This is really important if you
notice that your snuffer is getting shorter and shorter. Don't let it go. It doesn't take long
to straighten it out. All right we've laid out the parasailer and now we've got to pull the sock
all the way from the back all the way up to the head of the sail and see where the twist is
happening so that we can get this snuff line. This is our snuff line and it's gotten way too
short so we've got to do that. That reminds me of a song. Let's go to the twist now let's go to the
twist. Where's it at? So we've successfully pulled the sock up all the way to the head of the sail
and now we're going to untwist the sail because I'm sure there are a lot of twists in the sail
and we found some twists in the snuffer line and Brown's laying that out now and hopefully this
will solve our problem of a too short snuffer line or the snuffer line that's getting shorter.
We found the issue. Yeah. All right here we go. One, two, three, go. Shake it as you go.
All right so now we need the bag and we need to start to flake it. All right. The sail has been
repacked. We think we solved the issue. Brown is now adding chapstick to the zippers. To his lips.
To his luscious voluptuous lips. If you add chapstick it keeps the zipper from sticking.
Nice cheap way. Preventive
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