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The shrouds on my boat are secured by lashings rather than bottle screws. This is great because bottle screws are very easy to bend when raising the mast. Is there a recomended knot or technique for the lashings? one of the dinghy forums recomends multiple half hitches. Any thoughts?
 
There are lots of similar lashings in the rig of a square-rigged ship. When I used to work on them occasionally, the rule I was given was that for anything supporting a person there had to be at least four turns, four half-hitches, and four tucks through the lay of the rope. That was deemed sufficient for a footrope or craneline holding several people a hundred feet in the air.

Our old boat (24 feet) used a lashing for the forestay. I used to do six or eight turns and four or five half-hitches. I couldn't do tucks through the rope since it was tight (the ship lashings above were generally fairly slack unless someone was standing on them) but I would weave the end of the lanyard through a couple of the turns of the lashing to help hold it in place.

Pete
 
Katie L has Dyneema lashings

I used two bits of dyneema for each side

one attached to the boat and the other to the shrouds

each with a bowline

they are each taken three turns and then clove hitched off

that way if one rots and falls apart I still have a second

the trouble with using just one bit of rope is that if it gets cut then the mast is free to fall over

the lashings have been on for two years now

numerous mast drops

still looking good

D
 
As a wooden boatie I'd probably prefer the first of these two suggestions. But I'm sure that either would work okay.

Traditionally, shrouds were fastened with deadeyes for tensioning, and the lanyards used were made off like this --

deadeyes-&-lanyard-rigging.gif

The key thing here is Fig 3.1, showing three racking seizings, which were considered perfectly adequate.

Mike
 
Bit of a thread revival but I'm seriously considering getting (at least) my Corribee's lowers made up with a loop so I can ditch the bottlescrews and simply lash.

I like Dylan's redundancy idea.

Would I regret ditching the bottlemscrews?

Is 'lashing' the right term for this? If not what is?
 
Mark-1 said:
Bit of a thread revival but I'm seriously considering getting (at least) my Corribee's lowers made up with a loop so I can ditch the bottlescrews and simply lash.

I like Dylan's redundancy idea.

Would I regret ditching the bottlemscrews?

Is 'lashing' the right term for this? If not what is?
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Take a look at free range sailing on YouTube for some real world dyneema rigging usage and ideas on how to set it up
 
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