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Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting

25-02-2019, 18:00

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What is the purpose of this gap main track and how to stop my slugs from falling out?

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Posted By TrentePieds

Re: What is the purpose of this gap main track and how to stop my slugs from falling

dzhiurgis:

Not so! Take the word for “halyard”. You probably know that in Dutch it is “val”, pronounced “fal”, and that in English we use the word “fall (or “the falls”) for the part of the...

Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting

25-02-2019, 11:37

Replies: 42

What is the purpose of this gap main track and how to stop my slugs from falling out?

Views: 8,706

Posted By TrentePieds

Re: What is the purpose of this gap main track and how to stop my slugs from falling

Three things, mainly prompted by Dark Horse's post:

1) If OP's objective is to abandon Baltica in favour of the South Pacific, this boat COULD be fitted out to do it, but the expense incurred...

Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting

25-02-2019, 08:45

Replies: 42

What is the purpose of this gap main track and how to stop my slugs from falling out?

Views: 8,706

Posted By TrentePieds

Re: What is the purpose of this gap main track and how to stop my slugs from falling

Quote: "I've recently acquired Sparkman & Stephens Falcon 24 in Auckland and need to get some work done to get her in ship shape."

Yet you give your homeport as Silute, Lithuania. Getting this...

Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting

19-02-2019, 15:33

Replies: 42

What is the purpose of this gap main track and how to stop my slugs from falling out?

Views: 8,706

Posted By TrentePieds

Re: What is the purpose of this gap main track and how to stop my slugs from falling

Good of you to ask :-)

In order to find a specific external reference, I would have to plough through much material in my archives, which are stored elsewhere, in order to find my construction...

Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting

19-02-2019, 12:30

Replies: 42

What is the purpose of this gap main track and how to stop my slugs from falling out?

Views: 8,706

Posted By TrentePieds

Re: What is the purpose of this gap main track and how to stop my slugs from falling

Guyrj33:

No I didn't :-)

"Cove" is indeed the term known in my circles since time immemorial, i.e. as long as extruded ally spars have existed, and before that since Marconi rigs with "built...

Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting

19-02-2019, 10:08

Replies: 42

What is the purpose of this gap main track and how to stop my slugs from falling out?

Views: 8,706

Posted By TrentePieds

Re: What is the purpose of this gap main track and how to stop my slugs from falling

The bottom piece of track – correctly called “track” because something, in this case the gooseneck, clasps around it – is, as others have said, a device for letting the gooseneck slide up and down...

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