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10-24-2007, 02:48 AM

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The bosun's chair hitch, or lowering hitch, and how to form it

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Posted By Andrew Craig-Bennett

Brion - I sense that you disapprove of self...

Brion - I sense that you disapprove of self lowering in a bosun's chair altogether, but do I take it that you would prefer using the Munter hitch? It is certainly easier to form "one handed".

The...

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10-23-2007, 02:55 AM

Replies: 7

Making a towing bridle

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Posted By Andrew Craig-Bennett

I think Joe is right about crushing the mast. (I...

I think Joe is right about crushing the mast. (I have a very old fashioned boat!)

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10-23-2007, 02:50 AM

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The bosun's chair hitch, or lowering hitch, and how to form it

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Posted By Andrew Craig-Bennett

Answering my own post, and not having found the...

Answering my own post, and not having found the lowering hitch in Brion's book*, I would say:

Having stopped the standing part to the hauling part, preferably with a racking, but by grasping them...

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10-21-2007, 12:14 PM

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Making a towing bridle

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Posted By Andrew Craig-Bennett

One point to think very carefully about is chafe...

One point to think very carefully about is chafe where the towing connection leaves, so to speak, the deck of your boat. Ocean going tugs invariably use high tensile chain at the point where the...

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10-19-2007, 01:53 AM

Replies: 5

The bosun's chair hitch, or lowering hitch, and how to form it

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Posted By Andrew Craig-Bennett

The bosun's chair hitch, or lowering hitch, and how to form it

This may seem rather too basic for you chaps, but following a discussion in another place on the eternal topic of "how do I get up my mast, singlehanded?" in which I said "4:1 purchase to go up; form...

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10-11-2007, 08:39 AM

Replies: 3

Dinghy: centerboard or leeboard?

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Posted By Andrew Craig-Bennett

Yes. I have. Since I was fitting a rig to a...

Yes. I have.

Since I was fitting a rig to a pulling boat, I reasoned that the keel was too narrow to take a daggerboard case, and fitted a leeboard.

After a couple of weeks, I fitted a daggerboard...

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10-11-2007, 02:59 AM

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Is there a good reason for not using Dyneema for shrouds on a gaff cutter?

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Posted By Andrew Craig-Bennett

Thanks, Joe. That really is most encouraging....

Thanks, Joe.

That really is most encouraging.

I should have written "lower static, or initial, tension, in shrouds set up on deadeyes with lanyards" - the dynamic loadings won't be so different by...

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10-05-2007, 09:33 AM

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Is there a good reason for not using Dyneema for shrouds on a gaff cutter?

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Posted By Andrew Craig-Bennett

Thanks, Brion. I think I'll take this further....

Thanks, Brion.

I think I'll take this further. I'm about to lengthen the mast by six feet, in order to do away with the very annoying topsail yard, and that will mean new cap shrouds, so they will...

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10-05-2007, 06:36 AM

Replies: 6

Backstay with sheave and 7x9 wire OK?

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Posted By Andrew Craig-Bennett

"...the type that draws the legs together as...

"...the type that draws the legs together as you haul down on it."

Technically, as reader's of Patrick O'Brian's novels may care to note, a catharpin! :p

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10-05-2007, 05:10 AM

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Is there a good reason for not using Dyneema for shrouds on a gaff cutter?

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Posted By Andrew Craig-Bennett

People like me...

People like me

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are hidebound by tradition and cost and have galvanised wire that lasts for ever (those lower shrouds, parcelled...

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10-04-2007, 07:38 AM

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Is there a good reason for not using Dyneema for shrouds on a gaff cutter?

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Posted By Andrew Craig-Bennett

Is there a good reason for not using Dyneema for shrouds on a gaff cutter?

It just struck me that I might replace 10mm wire, parcelled and served, with soft eyes at both ends (round hounds and round deadeyes) with 12mm Dyneema (black, obviously!)and thereby save a great...

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04-13-2007, 03:41 AM

Replies: 2

Halyard for a Wykeham Martin furling jib on a 37ft gaff cutter's bowsprit

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Posted By Andrew Craig-Bennett

Halyard for a Wykeham Martin furling jib on a 37ft gaff cutter's bowsprit

First, let me describe the set up that we have had for many years now: A three strand dacron halyard goes from a pinrail on the port side of the deck to a single block on a strop on the mast, down to...

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