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No, that is true...but what Brendon is saying is that allows for one man operation of the GRCS. Without the self tailing feature, it takes one man to crank and one man to tail the line.

Sorry, missed that this thread went on some... Paul says it well...this is what I was referring to. Frans says you can do it with a fixed bollard too...just harder to do...I wouldn't want to...once you try it with a ratcheting bollard it would be such a drag to fight with a fixed bollard.

Don't forget that with a ratcheting bollard, besides the ability to pre-tension the rigging rope, a competent ropeman can also pull slack out as it develops in the first moments of fall.