{"id":555,"date":"2022-12-21T19:10:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T19:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2022-12-21T19:16:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T19:16:21","slug":"running-backstays-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/21\/running-backstays-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Backstays Installed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some reason, the boat did not have running backstays. Fortunately, the hardware was in place on the mast. A 1\/4&#8243; Dyneema line was attached to the mast and terminated with a thimble. To the Dyneema line was attached a 4:1 fiddle block with 1\/2&#8243; double braid with an eye splice. the pulley was attached a 1 1\/4&#8243; T-track using a shackle (so the stay can be easily stored at the base of the shrouds).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_7083.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_7083.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_7083.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_7083.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shackle was attached to a vintage Merriman Brothers track slide. Unfortunately, the slide on the starboard side was missing. However, I was able to find one on eBay,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/s-l1600.jpg?resize=525%2C386&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/s-l1600.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/s-l1600.jpg?resize=300%2C221&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aegir-ran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/s-l1600.jpg?resize=768%2C565&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, the boat did not have running backstays. Fortunately, the hardware was in place on the mast. A 1\/4&#8243; Dyneema line was attached to the mast and terminated with a thimble. To the Dyneema line was attached a 4:1 fiddle block with 1\/2&#8243; double braid with an eye splice. the pulley was attached &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/21\/running-backstays-installed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Running Backstays Installed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timeline-of-aegir-ran","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}