{"id":1405,"date":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:12:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T17:12:30","slug":"mainsail-headboard-attachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/mainsail-headboard-attachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainsail Headboard Attachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"question\">\n<p class=\"Body\">I just picked up a copy of your new edition 2 days ago and haven&#8217;t put it down. Myself and several others with boats in the 40-foot range meet regularly to discuss our preparations for eventual bluewater cruising. Departures start next year and stagger out for the next 5 years. I&#8217;ll be promoting Offshore Cruising Encyclopedia as a purchase (investment) everyone must make. Here is my first question: On page 660 you show a picture of a headboard carrier with an integral sheave. (I now have 2-to-1 using a block on the headboard.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"> Where do I purchase the type of carrier shown in your photo?? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"answer\">\n<p class=\"Body\"> Thanks for the comments on OCE. Having just finished a major writing project (on weather) it is nice to receive some encouragement!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"> The headboard to which you refer is a custom item, designed for a Whitbread boat. However, if you check Harken I think they may have something similar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"> On our boats we tend to use a webbed &quot;D&quot; ring, attached to the mast with two plastic coated stainless sliders, using a small-diameter hi-load block shackled on the &quot;D&quot; ring. Not as elegant as the solution shown in OCE, but about $5000 less costly!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just picked up a copy of your new edition 2 days ago and haven&#8217;t put it down. Myself and <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/mainsail-headboard-attachment\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk","category-sails-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36345,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/36345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}