Can anyone identify this deck hardware?

[Poignard]

Can anyone tell me what this is, please? It's about 3-1/2" high and 3" wide. Made by IYE, England.

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[fluffc]

My guess is a turning block for a spinnaker halyard/retrieval line

 

[ShipsWoofy]

er.. I suppose you are after more than.. 'It's a block'

 

[Poignard]

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er.. I suppose you are after more than.. 'It's a block'

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Correct! Something suitable for an heading in eBay was more what I had in mind. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[ShipsWoofy]

If you turned it upside down, looking at angles on the foot, it could screw to the underneath of the boom and become part of the main-sheet arrangement, it looks a bit heath-robinson but would probably work quite well. Is there a similar double block on the track?

 

[Poignard]

The picture is obviously not up to my usual Lord Snowdon standard. In fact it is designed to be fastened to a flat surface.

I'm gratified by your keen interest in it. Perhaps you might even like to buy it?

 

[Salty John]

I believe it's called an over-the-top block but that may be an Americanism. Used for taking control lines over the forward edge of cabins coamings rails etc.

 

[Seakindly]

Well -of no help at all -but there was one in the bottom of a locker in my old twister -and stayed there til I sold it....praps some standard kit circa 1974.....

 

[narooma]

guess....fixed plate block....16mm..double sheave..or maybe not

 

[pappaecho]

In the wrong place. should be on convenient place for dockside committee to spend hours deciding what is does, who made it and how it became obsolete

 

[davidfox]

The hoop over the top seems to suggest the lines run over it as per saltyjohn and it is to stop them flying off, - er and that there are 2 of them

 

[westevely]

Is it a device for pulling an obstinate Bull into a milking parlour

 

[davidfox]

Yes

 

[BlueSkyNick]

erm.... you are getting silly now. You have to pull cows into a milking parlour, NOT bulls ! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Parsonsheath]

The word is diversity, if the gent wants to milk a bull, that's his lookout, takes all sorts in life, and at least he's not Welsh!

 

[jfkal]

Multi purpose have duty block (vintage) ? /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

 

[chas]

Yes. It is from an airship. They were used for the steering lines.

 

[Poignard]

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Yes. It is from an airship. They were used for the steering lines.

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Well in that case, when I put it on eBay, I'll list it under military collectibles. Should be worth a lot more than a mere deck block.

More silly answers anyone? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif