|
One of the neat things about setting up the lazy jacks from a spreader a few inches off the mast is that it greatly eases the sometimes difficult job of threading the mast-mounted lazyjack lines during a hoist. The flogging headboard can quite easily snag one of the lines on the way by... something that's hard to see if lines are led aft and you're under a dodger during the hoist. (one reason to stop if things suddenly seem harder than usual....and to be at the mast during the hoist so you can see things like this developing...)
__________________
".. there is much you could do at sea with common sense.. and very little you could do without it.."
Capt G E Ericson (from "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat)
1984 Fast/Nicholson 345
|