Deadeye
A deadeye is an item used in the
Single deadeyes (or bull's eyes) are used to guide and control a line and, particularly in older vessels, to change its direction. More modern systems would use a block for this purpose but in traditional rigs with many lines to deal with, designed when blocks were relatively expensive to make, a deadeye provided an acceptable compromise. When blocks came into common use for adjusting running rigging, deadeyes continued to be used for tensioning standing rigging.
Triple deadeyes are used in pairs; a
In recent decades, as steel wire became the prevalent material for sailboat rigging, deadeyes and lanyards gave way to metal turnbuckles for tensioning the wires. More recently, however, with the advent of high-strength and low-stretch synthetic fibres, some sailboats are using synthetic rope for standing rigging, and deadeyes and lanyards are coming back into use as tensioning devices.[3] Modern deadeyes, also known as chainplate distributors can be made of titanium or aluminum, manufactured by vendors such as Colligo Marine.
See also
References
- OCLC 1129825.
- ^ Ashley, Clifford W. (1944). The Ashley Book of Knots. New York: Doubleday. pp. 534–537.
- ^ Smith, Ian Cameron (2007-05-15). "Synthetic Standing Rigging". Archived from the original on 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2008-05-05.