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question about interaction of yards and shrouds

Thanks to everyone who replied...turns out I had actually read the exact answers several of you supplied but at the time I wasn't familiar enough with the terminology to understand what I was reading. to paraphrase the Ancre monograph on the ship "the first shroud of the mainmast is attached to the channel with a triple block rather than a deadeye to allow the shroud to be slackened as needed to more effectively brace the main yard"

exactly as ya'all said. I just didn't understand what I'd read at the time
 
I believe that as iron and steel came to be used more in wooden ship construction, metal stand-offs were used to hold the main yards further in front of the mast, giving them a wider arc of movement.
 
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