Historic Vessel Vega. Setting up Shrouds with Dead Eyes and Lanyards
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- čas přidán 24. 08. 2024
- Deadeyes and lanyards are still entirely practical today. We use them on Historic Vessel Vega because they are resilient, easy on the spars and rigging, and their elasticity is quite noticeable. They give under sudden strains and bad weather, and in times of stress (God forbid !) are quickly cut away.
What a great video. So simply voiced and instructed!
Marlingspike seamanship is near to my heart.
What a great video. Wikipedia's explanation of deadeyes was impossible to follow.
Thank You, this was very informative.
Thank you for sharing hood learnings
Our pleasure!
Leeward shrouds can also be tightened and tuned on a nice tack.
Not too much though - very easy to overtighten in that situation leading to very unbalanced stresses. You probably know this but others may not.
@@rmcnabb Gangster comment...good man
you are correct there a few ways to do it, but that ain't one them
I've never seen that "technique" before either.
I'd love to make similar deadeyes and bull's eyes for my sail dinghy, but I seem to have trouble figuring out which way the wood grain should be oriented. Horizontal or vertical? 😅😅
Vertical.
So I'm rigging dyneema, I'm also doing these traditional wooden deadeyes (purple heart wood), I'm having a problem where as I'm tensioning my deadeyes are rotating so the holes become vertical, or worse rotate all the way 180°. I've used beeswax, cooking oil to try and make it easier, but it rotates everytime...any suggestions?
Your problem is a round deadeye. You're mixing technologies that don't actually work that well together. The seizing on the shroud holding the deadeye in place isn't tight enough. Often wire is used for this. Dyneema is insanely strong but it also has very low friction , and if you really clamp down on it to hold it in place around a deadeye, you're making a weak point in the yarns. Just because it's rope doesn't mean it's the right rope for all rope tasks. Look at Colligo Rigging for other ideas using deadeye technology but made with dyneema in mind.
@@rmcnabb hey thanks for the reply, actually I figured out that in order to create the friction you need to keep the deadeye blocks from turning, you need to parcel and serve the dyneema eye that the deadeye sits in with (if I recall correctly) #36 tarred seine twine. It costs 1/100th the pice of any colligo stuff, and it harkens back to the old tall ship days of parceling and serving. I got the purple heart blocks for about 300$ and I made about 30 or so deadeyes out of that, so vastly cheaper, DIY friendly, cost effective, and now my ketch is running full dyneema, parcelled and served, with beautiful purple heart deadeyes. And the parceling and serving not only helps with chafe resistance and UV damage, but the tension put on the dyneema from the serving mallet makes the dyneema stronger (in so far as it more closely meets the breaking loads even after splices) ...Old school methods meet new school line! It's awesome.
Not a monkey fist for a stopper knot?
both are good options. Monkey fist is larger
Monkey's Fist is a heaving knot.
The Monkey's Fist is a heaving knot. It is not a stopper knot.
@@scottcates trivial... it depends how you are using it. Not a contest
@@ryder6070 asked and answered
dubbing and sound effects is horribly bad.