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Old 10-11-2007, 02:59 AM
Andrew Craig-Bennett Andrew Craig-Bennett is offline
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Thanks, Joe.

That really is most encouraging.

I should have written "lower static, or initial, tension, in shrouds set up on deadeyes with lanyards" - the dynamic loadings won't be so different by the time the boat is on her ear in a short cross sea - and I do enjoy sailing her on her ear, being of the very firm opinion that any old boat that cannot be sailed that way needs a rebuild. Our local waters can be relied on to produce the short cross sea!

Actually, that photo was taken in Suffolk, in the East of England - it's an anchorage in the river Deben, though it does indeed look as if it ought to be Devon.

We have a very good firm, skilled in deadeyes as well as Dyneema, in Maldon (no names, this is Spartalk!) and I'll be going to them.

I know I need to save weight - the weight of the dressed mast on the yard crane is 400 lbs!
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