And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Er, Granny ... main halyard to clew?!?!?!? A main halyard attaches to a mainsail's head. An outhaul or a sheet attaches to a clew. Since there is no boom visible in the picture, one has to assume it is a single (of two required) sheet attached to the clew of a headsail. A bronze snap shackle has no place on the clew of a headsail - too dangerous when flogging. Bowlines are preferred. All in all, an ambiguous image; it MAY be a mainsheet on a loose-footed, and possibly boomless, main. So endeth the lesson. Cheers! (Alberg 37 owner)
Ah,yes, a spliced main halyard connected to the clew by a bronze/brass snap shackle. Yo ho Ho and a bottle of rum me hearties.
ReplyDeleteAh,yes, a spliced main halyard connected to the clew by a bronze/brass snap shackle. Yo ho Ho and a bottle of rum me hearties.
ReplyDeleteEr, Granny ... main halyard to clew?!?!?!? A main halyard attaches to a mainsail's head. An outhaul or a sheet attaches to a clew. Since there is no boom visible in the picture, one has to assume it is a single (of two required) sheet attached to the clew of a headsail. A bronze snap shackle has no place on the clew of a headsail - too dangerous when flogging. Bowlines are preferred. All in all, an ambiguous image; it MAY be a mainsheet on a loose-footed, and possibly boomless, main. So endeth the lesson.
ReplyDeleteCheers!
(Alberg 37 owner)
I humbly stand corrected.
ReplyDeleteNo need, really. Without the context of a fuller shot, no sailor would bet his rum on a definitive answer.
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