Capt. Mooron wrote:
That's not the point at all Doug..... the vang is indeed designed to do
it's job... it just seems that you fail to concede the point that the
vang's primary "job" is not to handle bearing loads delivered to the end of
the boom.

For a solid vang, it need not make any difference.



|
| Well, you keep saying over and over, "It can't be as strong as a topping
| lift" as though somehow calling a piece of rigging 'topping lift'
| magically renders it invulnerable.

No!... I said over and over that the mechanical advantage is to the topping
lift!

And I explained over and over (and over and over) why that is not
necessarily the case.



I think you'd better give your head a shake.... you have explained
nothing... you have obfuscated and side tracked

Bull puckey. You could have the textbook in front of you and still
insist that *you're* right and the prof & book *must* be wrong. A
classic case.

In regards to abilities to discuss topics... my Father always insisted on
regular discussions since I was very young....

Did he ever use a 2x4?

Regards
Doug King