[Public-List] Boom Vang sizing help

[Gordon Laco]

...what was more than a tickle?

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> On Nov 17, 2018, at 2:48 PM, Rod Symmes via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
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> This being a public list.....I will refrain from making a very rude noise.
> I only got the draining and anti-freeze done 24 hrs before it went to -10.
> Now I have slippery decks to contend with.
> Next time you are there check out my starboard thru-hulls.  A very interesting pattern in my copper bottom paint.  I guess it was more than a "tickle".
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> 
> Cheers,  Rod
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Gordon Laco via Public-List
> Date:17-11-2018 2:24 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all
> Cc: Gordon Laco
> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Boom Vang sizing help
> 
> And I have to add…  I was just over at Dutchman’s where our boats are wintering… man o man do I feel clever having already tarped up Surprise BEFORE the cold weather started.
> 
> Gordon Laco
> #426 Surprise
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>> On Nov 17, 2018, at 2:14 PM, Gordon Laco via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
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>> Yo Ho Rod…
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>> The dyneema is 12 strand 3/16”.   It tickles me to use high technology line there when everything else in the rig is traditional…
>> 
>> 2-6 refers to the numbers of the men in a gun team… they’re the two forward most port and starboard of the gun, closest to the gunport.  The rest of the team tails on behind them, so when the gun captain calls TWO SIX! he’s addressing the preparatory order to the guys at the head of each running up tackle.  The HEAVE part is self explanatory…
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>> 
>> Gordon Laco
>> #426 Surprise
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>>> On Nov 17, 2018, at 1:06 PM, Rod Symmes via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Gord ;
>>> Two questions:
>>> What size dyneema ?
>>> Do you use a small winch or simply "two six HEAVE".
>>> (and some day I want to hear your theory on why the navy came up with that phrase )
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,  Rod
>>> 
>>> -------- Original message --------
>>> From: Gordon Laco via Public-List
>>> Date:17-11-2018 11:13 AM (GMT-05:00)
>>> To: Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all
>>> Cc: Gordon Laco
>>> Subject: Re: [Public-List] Boom Vang sizing help
>>> 
>>> Hello James -
>>> 
>>> We use 10mm (3/8”) line in SURPRISE’s vang.  We have a block on a bale on the boom, and another bale also bolted through the mast’s heel and run the rig between them
>>> 
>>> We have a piece of dyneema r