[osteoderm]

Are there instances where a properly stout forged padeye is acceptable as a landing point for standing rigging?
The application I have in mind is for the lower terminus of my boomkin shrouds. My boat is a double-ender that carries beam relatively far aft, so legs have a wide healthy staying angle.
A strap tang would, however, extend below the waterline (the shrouds look to best land a couple inches above the bootstripe), and would be at a visually-unpleasant angle.
I like the idea of a beefy forged through-bolted padeye; visually neater, and with less in the way of edges and welds to harbour corrosion than an upright tang welded to a plate.
If such a padeye doesn't have some other fatal flaw I don't know about, here's another question:
Would it be better to shackle onto a padeye rather than pass a fork over it and secure with a clevis pin? I'm thinking of shackles on old-style jaw/eye turnbuckles...