Running Eye

[Don Case]

What is a running eye, just the end of a rope run through an eye at the other end? You can't imagine the pictures I got on Google.

 

[Y.T.]

It might be this

 

[AllanKP69]

What is a running eye

Can you give some context regarding this running eye, including which line is involved? If this is in your kit instructions it may be a translation issue. The more information you can share the better, especially if you post some pictures
Allan

 

[Don Case]

No, this is the staysail stay on the bowsprit . Here's a picture of pg 121 of Lees

 

[Don Case]

Can you give some context regarding this running eye, including which line is involved? If this is in your kit instructions it may be a translation issue. The more information you can share the better, especially if you post some pictures
Allan

Sorry, I still think that some things are generic. Like a knot is a knot. Assuming this is a knot, of course

 

[AllanKP69]

Like a knot is a knot.

Hi Don
Without context "not" necessarily. One knot has to do with fastening with rope, the other with speed of aircraft and vessels.

Another example --- if you see the word ledge for a part on a ship, but had no context, would you think of the ledge on a coaming, a ledge between beams or the ledges of a grating? Two of these run athwartships atop the beams and the other runs fore and aft level with the beams and are three completely different things with different purposes.

I am curious to know what the running eye is as it is a new term for me as well. Can you say what line(s) the running eye is used on?

Thanks

Allan

 

[Bela]

such a thing (Rackring) perhaps?

 

[Don Case]

Alan-- It's on the fore topstaysail rigging. Post #4 should explain it better I think

 

[Don Case]

Bela-- The traveller is for the jib, this is the fore staysail, the next sail aft of the jib.

 

[AllanKP69]

I am baffled. Lees describes everything except what a running eye actually looks like. MAYBE it is the rack ring in the picture above which slides along the sprit when hauled I cannot find anything else that makes sense.
Allan

 

[Don Case]

Is it possible that it is just kinda like a lasso around the bowsprit? I've never seen one of those used but a lasso could be described as a "running eye"

 

[Don Case]

Darcy Lever mentions "running eye" twice but doesn't explain what it is

"s. The Jack Stay goes with a running Eye round the Mizen Mast Head, and is set up with a Laniard and Thimbles to an Eye-bolt in the Deck, abaft the Mizen Mast. For the different methods of rigging the Boom "

" The AFTER GUY (x) goes With a running Eye round the end of the Dolphin Striker (z), leads through a Thimble in a Strap round the Bowsprit, and sets up with a Luff-tackle Purchase as before.* "

 

[Jack Jäger]

Is it possible that it is just kinda like a lasso around the bowsprit? I've never seen one of those used but a lasso could be described as a "running eye"

That's about it Don, a spliced eye with it's own tail through it. Think of a main stay with the eye running up tight to the mouse.

Cheers JJ..

 

[Don Case]

That's about it Don, a spliced eye with it's own tail through it. Think of a main stay with the eye running up tight to the mouse.

Cheers JJ..

Thanks Jack. Do you think this one would have a mouse? Or at least something to keep it from choking up.

 

[Jack Jäger]

Thanks Jack. Do you think this one would have a mouse? Or at least something to keep it from choking up.

Don't know for sure Don, doubt it would be a mouse, but perhaps a wooden toggel,

Cheers JJ..

ps Your HMS Discovery looks fantastic, really well done.

 

[Uwek]

Is this not a eye-knot?

KNOTTING AND SPLICING ROPES AND CORDAGE | Project Gutenberg

www.gutenberg.org

 

[Don Case]

That really doesn't look like a substantial enough knot for a stay, but I could be wrong. I can't see anything in that knot that would lead to the name "running knot" but then I'm not sure what I should be looking for.