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.
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It might be this
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
No, this is the staysail stay on the bowsprit . Here's a picture of pg 121 of Lees
Sorry, I still think that some things are generic. Like a knot is a knot. Assuming this is a knot, of courseCan 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
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
Alan-- It's on the fore topstaysail rigging. Post #4 should explain it better I think
Bela-- The traveller is for the jib, this is the fore staysail, the next sail aft of the jib.
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"
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.* "
"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.* "
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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.
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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.
Is this not a eye-knot?
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KNOTTING AND SPLICING ROPES AND CORDAGE | Project Gutenberg
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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.