[C320-list] Preventer

[Irv Grunes]

Allan'
Do you remember the size of the line and the block sizes?
Irv Grunes #851

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I wish I could say that what I do is original but it isn't.  Credit needs to
go to Orlando.

There are 2 blocks on the boom for the main.  From the aft block attachment
point, I hung a long shackle.  The longer the shackle the easier it is to
hook onto.

I then took 2 lines (one green, the other red) and spliced a snap shackle
onto one end of each line.  The snap shackles are hooked to the long shackle
on the boom block attachment point.

Both lines are led all the way forward to blocks mounted on long shackles on
the forward cleats; long shackles keep the blocks out of the way of docking
lines.  At the base of each stanchion, I have an inboard block mounted.  At
the aft stanchion where the gate is, down low I mounted a block with a cam
cleat.  The lines run from the boom block attachment point to the bow, back
through the stanchion blocks and all the way back to the block with the cam
cleat.

Everything runs fair and when I lock the boom down through the cam cleat, I
know it is secure.  I could have run the lines back to the aft cleat but
wanted something that was easier and faster to use.  This method is not
on-the-cheap but it is safe.

Hope this helps...

Allan S. Field
Sea Shadow - #808
Columbia, MD

-------------- Original message --------------
From: "Lamar Desmond" <ldesmond at comcast.net>

> How are people rigging a preventer for the main? How/where are you
attaching
> at the boom, deck and cockpit. And how about line size/type.
>
> Thanks for any pointers....
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> Lamar
> #358
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