"SAIL LOCO" wrote in message
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| There are engineering reasons
| for that (plus it looks cool).
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| No, what looks cool are big boat booms with holes in them.

Loco ... Please! Either join this discussion and add to it or stay on the
side lines and refrain from inane comments. I'm not being mean here.... but
I am requesting a modicum of intellectual input on an interesting
discussion.

Now allow me to ask you if you believe a vang as suited to load bearing
ability as a topping lift.

Let's refine this by placing the caveat that the strength of the vang is
equal to the strength of the topping lift in maximum load bearing abilities.
In other words if you beef up the vang you can as well beef up the topping
lift. Assume the loads are well within the stress capacities acceptable to
both the boom and the mast/shrouds.

CM


CM