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Problem with belaying pin location on WYOMING


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Rather than spend hours looking, I thought I'd start here first.  The plans I'm using to develop the kit of WYOMING were drawn by an actual schooner captain who is also a well-known researcher, so I have a warm fuzzy about their accuracy.  There is no belaying plan, but that is not much of a problem.  I can figure that out based on rigging plans for other schooners.  The main problem is that there is no indication of where the halyards on the forecastle mast (that's what P & S called it, as well as #1) tie off.  The plans do not show a fife rail nor a spider band on this forward-most mast.  Like many schooners, this mast passes through the fore house and the boom jaw rest is quite close to the roof.  WYOMING was flush-decked and did not have bulwarks, only a rail with stanchions which doesn't sound strong enough to support pin rails.  There are no indications of pin rails anywhere forward.  There are two large wooden bitts just forward of the house, each having two belaying pins, but this doesn't seem like enough to be the belaying points for this mast.  So, does anyone have an illustraton of this particular configuration that would clear things up for me? 

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Zero data, but if a pin rail on a solid mount would solve the problem and I was determined to be economical and efficient, I would give a thought to placing a pin rail at the front of the deck house.

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