[Public-list] Reefing lines

Dave Terrell DTERRELL at message.nmc.edu
Thu Oct 13 15:21:52 PDT 2005


neither did I until I got one.

>>> gdinwiddie at alberg30.org 10/12/05 6:49 PM >>>
Thanks!  I've got that; just didn't know the term.

Dave Terrell wrote:
> it is a piece of heavy duty material with a stainless steel ring on
> both ends that goes through the cringle. the material is like the
> strips/straps you find at the corners of a head sail to give extra
> strength to those areas. I think it called a dog bone because with
> the rings on either end connected by this heavy duty heavily stiched
> material it looks like a dogbone. you attach the block to the ring on
> the dogbone. I thought it an odd term when I first heard it. The
> dogbones on my sail are very heavy duty items and really serve their
> purpose.
> 
> 
>>>> eddiediver at sbcglobal.net 10/11/05 8:36 PM >>>
> 
> Thats a bone , eaten by dogs.
> 
> George Dinwiddie <gdinwiddie at alberg30.org> wrote:Dave Terrell wrote:
> 
>> through a block held in place by a dogbone in the cringle
> 
> 
> OK, what's a dogbone?
> 

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