Did the manual show the starboard watch hauling the line through the blocks,
under the baleful glare of the bosun? Heh heh...
Rope... omigod...
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 12/1/05 11:09 AM, Bob Howard at mgbob@juno.com wrote:
> Using the rocker studs gives me the jim-jams also. In the workshop
> manual for TD-TF, there is a photograph of an engine being swung into a
> TD by means of a rope grommet wrapped around the engine, probably 3/4
> diameter sisal. I used a 5/8 diameter nylon rope when swinging a TD
> engine & gearbox out and in last time; it worked very easily and, as a
> wooden-boat sailor, I was more comfortable with rope than with chain.
> Bob
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