[quote=texastuma][quote=klozhald]There should be [b][u]one big shackle[/u][/b] where the stays attach to the mast (mast hound). From port to starboard there should be:
1. Port trapeze line, single or double, by a thimble - NOT another shackle
2. Port side stay by a thimble
3. Forestay through a thimble
4. Starboard side stay by a thimble
5. Starboard trapeze line, single or double, by a thimble - NOT another shackle
Any additional shackles in this area are bound to get bound up and should be eliminated.[/quote]
Not necessarily... My Nacras and early Prindles had everything on one shackle. My Nader has the trap wires on a 1/4" bow shackle above the standing rigging shackle. It keeps the trap wires from getting hooked under the shroud and giving you that lovely "pop" when it releases. On my modified 18-2, I have the trap lines about a foot above the forestay hound. Never an issue of them tangling and wrapping. But, when we raced the Naders in the 90s, we would have long D-shackles attached to the swage eye on the shrouds and then to the relatively large bow shackle. Of course, we would decrease the size of the bow shackle because one doesn't need that big of shackle if fittings are streamlined.[/quote]
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