[Public-List] Jib sheet winch

[Gordon Laco]

Thanks George - 

Would you mind changing one thing please... Leave off that line about
backing plates.  I was responding to what I think was a silly rebuttal by
somebody and regret being so abrupt.

The fact is, since the load put on the stanchion base is nearly all in
shear; no backing plate is required to use the base as an anchor point for a
sheet foot block.   It is the loads imparted on the base by the lifeline
that require a plate.  I was irritated that someone would think that his
stanchion bases were 'good enough' for lifelines but not for anchoring a
block!

Gord



On 10/22/08 8:37 AM, "George Dinwiddie" <gdinwiddie at alberg30.org> wrote:

> Gordon Laco wrote:
>> I just sent the pictures to George... Hopefully you can see them that way...
> 
> I've set them up on http://alberg30.org/Assoc/Cruising/JibSheetLeads/


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