No Edd... Shackles flying across the deck in tack or having the shackle scar your dodger are not good things.
I learned to do an eye splice and went from knots to eyes and a single soft shackle. Slick looking and no more having the sheets hang up on the baby stay either. Tom Buscaglia S/V Alera 1990 C&C 37+/40 Vashon WA P 206.463.9200 C 305.409.3660 > On Nov 7, 2018, at 1:09 PM, cnc-list-requ...@cnc-list.com wrote: > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 15:56:19 -0500 > From: Edd Schillay <e...@schillay.com> > To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Subject: Stus-List Shackle for Genoa Sheets? > Message-ID: <44174af6-5d8c-40cb-bb24-b710dc1ba...@schillay.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Listers, > > Does anyone use a shackle for their genoa sheets instead of a knot? If so, > how big? What type? What kind of breaking strength? > > All the best, > > Edd > > > Edd M. Schillay > Starship Enterprise > C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B > City Island, NY > Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log <http://enterpriseb.blogspot.com/> >
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