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neath the butt as a compression pad, and reinforce  had all better be first-rate. Take a turn around the
             the cabin beams at this point with heavy bracing  capstan with the forestay line and snub it to keep
             salvaged from the boom, whisker pole, or bowsprit.  the mast from going over backward.
             Run the backstay line through a turning block to a   When the mast is plumb, pass the attached
             winch and horse the mast up by main force until  ropes through shackles on the chainplates and the
             the angle is high enough for the winch to take over.  lower ends of the shrouds several times to form lan-
             The hands on the shrouds will have a tough time of  yards, and tighten them moderately. Now get out
             keeping the mast from falling sideways; go slowly  some more spare lines and a come-along, and lash
             so they can pay out their lines evenly. You’ll have to  the base of the mast very tightly to the stump. Take
             go forward to tend the forestay as the mast goes up,  up some more on the shrouds and stays, check all
             so the backstay, turning block, winch, and winchers  attachment points, and you’re ready to hoist a sail
                                                         or two.
             Figure 9-6. A Molly Hogan splice is made by unlaying
             three adjacent strands of a 7 x 7 or 7 x 19 wire rope   Problem:   No matter what jury rig is needed, the
             for a distance equal to about two-and-a-quarter times   crew fails to see it as a design exercise.
             the circumference of the desired eye. Overhand-Knot
             the resulting two bundles together—left over right—to   Response:   Long before such unpleasantness might
             form the eye (A), then lay the two bundles into each   occur, you get to know your rig on an intellectual
             other’s vacant spaces, right down to the standing part   level. There are no principles or techniques specific
             (B). At this point, cut the heart out of the bundle it’s   to jury rigging. It is just design and installation,
             in (C), helix the six strands smoothly down onto the   constrained more than usual by time and available
             standing part, and tape them down (D).      materials. One will likely not have the leisure to run






































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