Posted by Laurence_ on July 17, 2006 at 19:00:50 from 212.134.16.4 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: New Website for AusTARS posted by Jock on July 17, 2006 at 07:41:47:
Being a standing lug rig, .... the halyard is secured to the weather gunwale to replace a shroud that isn't otherwise there.
This may be true in some working boats, although it really relates more to the dipping lug rig where the sail is lowered on tacking and the halyard then made fast to the new weather gunwale when the sail is re-hoisted.
But it is quite explicit in SA that the halyard is made fast at the foot of the mast, as it is in my own standing lug dinghy, and for that matter any others I have ever seen. It would otherwise be dreadfully in the way on tacking.