[Alberg30] downhaul

[George Dinwiddie]

John,

Oh, OK.  So you have a two-part purchase on your downhaul?  The light
line goes from the tack, up to the lizzard, down to the block on the
stem and then back to the cockpit?  Do you attach the lizzard to the
top hank?

(Hugh, lignum vitae is a hard tropical wood.  It's naturally lubricated
and was used for shaft bearings before Cutless bearings were invented.)

 - George

> John Shell said:
> 
> a lizzard is a fairlead thing-a-ma-bob.  Mine are made of a lignum vitea
> ring with a 1/2" hole, sanded smooth and boiled in liseed oil.  Then I made
> a ring splice large enough to go aroung the ring and have a 9" 'tail'.  I
> simply attach this to a hank.  I use this because it doesn't chafe the sail
> and it was cheap to make compared to a $10 block with sharp edges.

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