Posted by Bill Wallace-King on January 05, 2008 at 10:57:52 from 86.133.34.162 user Bill_Wallace.
In Reply to: Re: WDMTGTS questions, one fairly esoteric/nautical posted by Laurence Monkhouse on January 04, 2008 at 18:17:36:
Unfortunately I can't find the photo you referred to in my (2nd edition) of Roger Wardale's "Arthur Ransome's East Anglia"
I can understand why the block would be well above deck on the main halyard when the manisail was reefed, but not otherwise. Then I come back to how ineffective it would be to have the captive end at the chainplates.
I have limited experience of Naval Officers aboard, but have formed the impression that they are much more useful than steamrollers, than nearly all other crew, and than the skipper!