[Bott]

Hello all again,

am going to be re-rigging the shrouds of my gaff cutter with Dux (9mm) and am currently thinking of how I want to terminate the shrouds at the hounds. Through some brainstorming I came to a possible, elegant solution with corollaries in traditional gaffer standing rigging: using a single piece of wire for a pair of shrouds creating a soft eye in the center with a well done wire seizing (as described at the end of page 39 in Hand Reef and Steer).

My shrouds are going to be shackled to a tang at the hounds, but I was wondering if I would be a workable solution to have a single piece of line for both shrouds on one side, bend round a thimble at the center and seized at the thimbles throat... or possibly eye spliced at the center with both legs free at the end to create the two shrouds?

I have a feeling that dyenx dux may just be just too slippery to make this arrangement work, but the elegance and simplicity of it seems so great that I couldn't help but explore the idea.

Thanks,
Eric

ps- Brion, it was very excellent to chat and train with you at the AikiWeb Seminar, thanks for the kind company.