...because my shiny new mast extension [from site sponsor] is a mirror image of every other one I've ever seen or used. Perhaps [site sponsor]'s sails rig back-to-front too, port side up.
The cleat is on the left.
This means threading everything back-to-front, which is bloody hard/impossible after all these years, and then ending up with the cleat down in the grass when you go to adjust downhaul. Stupid.
Is this a manufacturing error/refund?
p.s. all the images on their site show it back-to-front.
Severne are configured to rig port side - all the cleats / geometry / boom head orientation / rope pockets for excess rope are configured to be super easy when done this way.
I can rig em both ways no dramas - but port saves about 30 seconds- and makes for great ergonomics
- which could be an extra wave or a jump when you are in a rush after work!
I always rig starboard side up, and my Chinook extension and whatever I had before has the cleat uppermost when rigging starboard side up.
I don't recall any of my numerous extensions being different over the years. I also saw a number of people rig Severnes with starboard side up yesterday - are you sure you are talking abotu which side is up rather than down Matt?
You people are in a parallel universe. 
Never had to think about it or seen anything different...... 
Didnt KA put their Cam pockets on the other side on some sails due to the tack they use at sandy point?
yup, the severne sails come out of the bag rolled to suit port side rigging. i've got a chinook extension so at some stage in the rigging process i need to flip it over, i usually thread it all up, then flip it right at the end.
should get a severne extension, save me 30 seconds, but can't really justify throwing away a perfectly good extension....
wanna swap?
That is fkn weird. Every single extension I have ever had is the other way around.
Yesterday I saw a few people rig new-ish Severnes, with Severne extensions, and do it starboard up like everyone else.
This is like a dream I can't wake up from, unsure what is reality, I'm going to the beach to look before it does my head in.
i have the severne extension too its a good thing but it would have been nice if they just did it the same side as every one else instead of trying to be different
I too once switching to Severne, after fighting it, had to switch to rigging port side up, which as most people have said is counter intuitive ergonomically because as a right hander I want to push with my right leg when downhauling. With the sail sitting port side up the right is the 'inside leg' which means the rope comes over the leg from outside to in, rather staying on the inside of the leg. This is an unnatural line up of forces ergonomically...and it's annoying.
However the reason I do it has less to do with the cleat position on the extension (a minor issue, it works both ways imo) and more to do with the fact that the boom goes on far easier with the sail on that side, and the elastic/hook when rolled up only really work if you roll the sail port side up. My conclusion is that Ben must be left leg/handed 
I figured that Severnes would be easier to rig in a WA seabreeze and that's where it started from. (ie Tip downwind/mast on windward side) I had to change my boom heads over when I got my Severnes. Good for rigging in a NE over here.
But more importantly, (Mark you will probably know this) why do you have to thread the downhaul rope at all in every modern sail? My retro sails have an eyelet and the rope is already threaded through the pulleys (attached to the mastbase) which just hooks onto the sail. It's soooo much quicker and easier. It's not just about setting the sail down lower as you could just put the eyelet in the sail slightly higher and get the same effect. You can also afford yourself better quality pulleys that would be ready for all your sails.
I reckon threading the pulleys is the most time consuming part of rigging. ...and you usually have to sit down to do it for some reason.
Have I written too much in regards to this?
Certainly a bit of a pain when your quiver is a mix of port-side Severnes and other sails rigged on starboard-side (like my quiver). Also, I've used a Streamlined RDM extension for many years and have never been able to get the rope aligned correctly and the pulleys working properly when I use it with Severne sails (ended up using an Aeron extension when I rig a Severne which works well).
Man this is cracking me up, never thought about which way my sail is when rigging but now realise why I love my severnes..... yes I'm a lefty. Thanks Ben for helping me out. Keep up the entertainment people, hope you find reality soon Mark lol.
Never knew we sailboarders were such a spatially challenged lot. Anyone here have to turn the map around?
I rig my sails so the breeze is blowing over the luff. That requires lying the sail on a different side depending on where I am sailing. I use cammed sails but it can be done. I can reach under to do up a zip, and you don't have to flip the sail to roll it, you just roll it under instead of over.
Ben Severne may or may not be a leftie but rigging on port would suit a WA seabreeze at the beach so I guess that's where his motivation is.
You don't have to flip it Anita, just rotate it. eg in a seabreeze I have the mast tip to the north of the beach (NE really) and in a winter northwesterly the mast tip is pointing to as S - SSE.
Much easier to rig if you don't flip it, so the rope threading is always the same etc.
I actualy asked Ben this, and it was well thought out and planned, most wavesailing spots around the world are the same tack as W.A were the sails are designed and tested apart from Maui. So the way the rig is perfect for W.A. Back to the wind mast closes to the sea..
Some companies have not thought about it at all like Aeron, There extensions rig the opisite way to there booms, now that don't make sense.
Old arrows SDM extensions rig this way, as well. So perhaps their sails did to?
All my sails are Severne, for the booms (tecnolimits) I just undid the clamp, and put it back the opposite(correct way). The big sails have 4 pullies, and SDM have 4 rollers which make it feasible for me down haul by hand.
I just rig the thing however it lands when I throw it on the ground... same for rolling it back up.?
I like pic 5b for how to roll the sail.
The fact somebody is rolling it whilst wearing 3/4 arm length skivvy at the beach (must be trying to appeal to the German market??) is offset by the very realistic crinkled leech.
