How to attach a wing to a sidemount harness??

[bubbleless]

Hi Everyone,

I have been thinking , thats usually dangerous, so I thought I would ask first.

Does anyone know how to mount a wing on a sidemount harness, such as the Dragon or Farrworld harnesses.

I have seen dragons price list that shows an adaptor, just wondered whether anyone had used one.

Hope someone has

John

[Duncan Price]

Originally Posted by bubbleless

Does anyone know how to mount a wing on a sidemount harness, such as the Dragon or Farrworld harnesses.

I have seen dragons price list that shows an adaptor, just wondered whether anyone had used one.

Never done it myself - either wear an ABLJ or a stab jacket over the harness.

Seen others do it plenty though - best rig I saw was two fastex buckles sewn into the top of the wing and then clipped to the shoulder straps, two more buckles on the base of the wing onto the waist band (alternatively a waist loop of bungy) and then a bit of bungy around the wing and chest to stop it flapping. I think with the Farr harness you can thread the bungy from the back though the wing slots and then around your tanks before you clip them off to the chest D-rings. The difficulty is stopping the wings lifting away from the body when inflated.

[malcolm smith]

I have a dragon harness and they rigged up way of attaching my single cylinder halcyon wing to it. I added a bicycle innertube attached to the bottom of the wing, through the legs and attached to the waist strap fixes it all down neatly.
If you aren't a DIY type, send the wing and harness to Dragon and I expect they can sort it out. Cheers, Malcolm.

[NotDeadYet]

As Duncan says, wear an ABLJ. I just happen to have one for sale :-) PM me if you are interested.

[AMW]

Wings, STAB jackets,ABLJ no need.


Now this is what the best use not me as I am far from best

Andrew.

[Digger]

Duncan, got any photos of your water bag BC? I thought that was a reasonably neat way of doing things!

I've always just used mine bare, using the suit for buoyancy. I don't do it on dives where I might need to free swim for the surface, but it is ok for me on reasonably shallow dives (<35m) with a DSMB or shotline.

I did have an amusing moment in Cyprus after having drained a near-empty tank which my suit was running off and coming back up to a stop. I then swam over 40-odd metres of depth with no suit inflation, it must have slipped my mind that there was no backup. If I'd have started to sink it could have taken a while to get back up... I got over to the dropline and plugged in the other tank when I realised! I seem to remember that being the one where everyone left me their tanks as they went up the shot, and I got ditched with 4 tanks weighing me down!

Digs.

[bubbleless]

Many thanks to all who replied, love the inner tube.

I will go and fiddle in the garage, with my kit that is!!

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John