On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:17:37 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote:


Interesting little feature that I'd never seen before - the back stay
has an additional little clip swaged onto the stay - I imagine it's an
emergency type of deal.

I'm thinking two possibilities. First, and most common, is a topping
lift to hold the boom up when there's no mainsail up.

Second is some type of gismo for stepping the mast. Could be some
sort of block and tackle attaches to that extra clip for pulling up
the mast.

bb