"DSK" wrote in message
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I'd offer that you have no idea how much halyard tension is
desirable on a keelboat of this size, and I'll bet you haven't tried
"putting one's foot hard & high against the mast, & alternately
drawing the halyard outward" in any kind of seaway.

You'd be wrong. A quarter century of sweating halyards on boats from
7 to over 300 feet.

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Roger Long