Re: Travellor & sail controls


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Posted by andy b on September 10, 2003 at 22:26:47 from 81.131.149.218 user beardbiter.

In Reply to: Re: Travellor & sail controls posted by Ross Cossar on September 10, 2003 at 21:25:11:

In the famous photo of AR sailing "Swallow" in Rio Bay he appears to be holding a main sheet which runs directly from his hand to the end of the boom but my version of the picture ( in Claire Kendall Price's "In the Footsteps..") is too small for me to be sure. In the picture of AR sailing "Slug" in Riga Bay which appears in his autobiography, the main sheet appears to run from his hand to a point about a foot from the end of the boom. There is certainly no traveller or horse or any other device on the transom. AR's body obscures the exact route of the sheet so it is just about possible that he ran the sheet aroud some sort of running belay set somewhere forward of the transom but it is hard to imagine how this could be done without risk of snags. There is no evidence of any block, cleat or belaying pin which could be used for purchase on the sheet on the more clearly visible port side of "Slug". So, my guess is that not only he didn't use one but considered this practice as so ordinary as not to be worth mentioning. Maybe 'real sailors' didn't use such things back in the 20s.


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