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Tar on dead-eyes and hearts

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Were dead-eyes and hearts tarred? Or they went black due to fact that the tar of the standing rigging ropes came oi contact ?


Ps is there a name for all this (dead-eyes, bull-eyes, hearts etc)standing rigging "blocks without sheaves"?
 
Thank you Dave... am going to read it carefully.

Christos
 
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So sheaves or not, in english are all blocks. (Thats not the case in greek). Thank you again for this excellent document.

Christos
 
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