[Public-List] Jib sheet winch

[Gordon Laco]

OOOPs!!!! sorry about the comment below!!! I was trying to soften my
response and did not mean to make it worse by sending my email back to the
open list!!

Please accept my apology.

Gord


On 10/22/08 9:00 AM, "Gordon Laco" <mainstay at csolve.net> wrote:

> 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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