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Subject: TWL: Re: Trawler-world-list digest, Vol 5 #405 - 21 msgs
LRZeitlin@XXX.XXX
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 10:47:56 EDT
In a message dated 8/2/02 12:03:07 AM, trawler-world-list-request@XXX.XXX
Larry Z writes:
<< << We have a Krogen 42 and routinely put out jacklines - real simple -
just a
50 ft. 3/4" dockline, whenever we are going outside the ICW or at anytime
in heavy weather. >>
I used to use jacklines on an offshore racing sailboat where considerable
time was spent on the foredeck changing sails in bad weather but it seemed
like too much trouble to install them on my Willard 30 Horizon. After all,
the boat is only 30 ft. long and no point on deck is more than 10' from a
companionway or hatch. I simply put in 3/8" SS eyebolts, reinforced with
backplates on port and starboard cabin sides. On each side, one eyebolt is
about midships at the center steering station and pilot house companionway,
another eyebolt is 5' aft, another 5' forward. >>
I went out to my boat yesterday and it seems that the tether attachment bolts
were further apart than the 5' I mentioned. Memory, like other things, seems
to get smaller with age. Actually the eyebolts are closer to 7.5' apart,
spaced so that one is near the aft companionway, another midships, and
another at the forward edge of the cabin. I use an old Lirakis offshore
harness with 2 meter retracting tethers. The attachment eyebolts are not
hardware store items but are forged SS 3/8" shank eyebolts sold in the
Hamilton catalog as "lifting bolts". Each has a 4500 lb test strength. I use
this "jackline" system regularly but fortunately have never had an occasion
to test its breaking strength.
Larry Z
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