padeyes and tangs

[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...

[Brian Duff]

"Are there instances where a properly stout forged padeye is acceptable as a landing point for standing rigging?"

That is exactly how many prodution sailboats have their rigging terminated to the deck and hull.
I recall Cape Dorys as beign rigged that way. Where I have seen this done well the padeyes have a hole drilled in a cast lug for the clevis pin rather than just a hoop like on regular padeyes. I do not know where you can buy them now...

[osteoderm]

I'd accept a hole drilled through a forged lug-and-baseplate piece, but not a cast one... I've seen a few similarly-shaped lugs, but they were all welded; again, not so much for the strength/weakness, but for the little corrosion-inviting contours of most any weld.