What do you say to people offering to take your lines?

[Rigger Mortice]

I'm not a rigger (like you)..........................
.............own right...and I'm beginning to wish I hadn't bit!

Thanks for that!

BTW I'm not a rigger. Sometimes the black humour of my user name is a handicap on this forum. But it is no more than a boaty joke.

 

[James_Calvert]

Thanks for that!

BTW I'm not a rigger. Sometimes the black humour of my user name is a handicap on this forum. But it is no more than a boaty joke.

I knew that!


Thinking about it a bit more, there is another line of thought which applies ie however you put more tension on the guardwire, the result is to increase the inward loading on each stanchion top, so it doesn't matter whether it's one way or another.

I think the answer may be different for each stanchion position, and to what extent it can deflect without damage. Think of replacing each stanchion with a bit of rope. An outward pull on the wire would still be supported by the tension in it, although the individual stanchion top positions would change, some maybe by quite a bit. An inward push would be unsupported for a whole lot further, maybe never.

I'm not going any further on this - but if others want to take it up, perhaps they'd like to start another thread.

(I still think you should be able to scramble on board from a dinghy holding onto the guard-wires without overstressing anything.)

 

[Robin]

Thanks for that!

BTW I'm not a rigger. Sometimes the black humour of my user name is a handicap on this forum. But it is no more than a boaty joke.

There used to be a rigger in Poole years back name IIRc of Morton who everyone called Rigor Mortis