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Old 12-18-2010, 10:37 AM
allene allene is offline
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Originally Posted by Brion Toss View Post
I think you mean .5:1, yes?
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Brion Toss
Well, I meant that setup with the 2:1 block on the sail shackle puts a compression load on the mast of 1.5 times the load of the main. But that does result in a .5:1 load on the halyard going down the mast. I think it is all relative but I was being relative to the compression load.

Allen
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