Tempting, but...
Hello,
It's an obvious place for a snubber, and it is true that the snubber loads will be far lower than the bobstay loads when the boat is under way. But it is possible to load both the jibstay and the snubber simulaneously (imagine sailing off an anchor), and worse still the max snubber loads will tend to apply a lot of lateral torqueing force on the cranse iron, more than it was designed to take. And finally, even if the other objections were dismissable, I am just plain reluctant to hang two critical pieces on one lug. Better to drill and tap a padeye into the iron, or, if the lugs are big enough, drill a second hole behind a bowsprit shroud lug. Or something.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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