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Your Alert looks great Clare. I'll get back to mine, someday that is.
I'm not in total agreement with Ab on the item I called a chestree. Ok, if if looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. If the kit says to put a sheave in it, then it's a chesstree, plain and simple.
From a practical standpoint, a rope just passing through a hole in a piece of wood does not sound like a good idea. Considering that the piece of wood is always exposed to the rain, splashing seawater, swelling up from soaking the water and shrinking from being in the sun all the time, I don't think it would be reliably usable. That's why they invented sheaves because those ropes have to move and move freely. You can call it whatever you want but to me, I'll call it a chesstree simply because it has a sheave in it. Ships changed over the years as new ideas and new technology came along.
Take care,
Bob
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