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The answer on jib sheets
Roger,
A thought, maybe your original intent, don't know. Anyway, being slow it just occurred to me. Make up one sheet with your largish eye splice that get threaded through the cringle and doubled back. Make up another sheet that has its eye splice through the first sheet's eye splice. (I'm assuming this is possible never having come close to mastering double braid splicing) This has the potential of reducing the mass of line to pull across the shrouds. BF "Roger Long" wrote in message ... "Jeff" wrote Is it my imagination or is the second sheet captured only by a loop of the first, and thus could pull it apart? I'm sure there's a way of avoiding this ... but it illudes me right now. It's your imagination (or lack thereof right at this moment). Both loops are held by their own standing parts. It's hard to convey in the pictures but will be come clear if you fiddle with a couple of spliced loops. BTW I know that most of you don't have problems with bowlines and other knots hanging up on the shrouds. I don't either when I'm sailing alone or with an experienced crew. A lot of my sailing is with people, often kids, that I'm trying to talk through the process and poor timing of the steering and line handling makes a big difference. I hate to see that wincher grinding for all he or she is worth when all the strain is being taken by the foreward lowers as I try to get the hesitant helmsman to give her another quarter turn. -- Roger Long |
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