materials for deadeyes, and lanyard question

[H/V Vega]

Uh could it be that you are not finding references to that system because it didn't work quite as well in the real world of wooden boats as it did on someones drawing board? I've owned and rigged more traditional / classic/ hysterical boats than I can remember. Dead eyes are great. They work well and have a lot of shock absorbing action in them. The thing is do you really want one end of your lanyard affixed to some solid point that will not move as the rig moves? You know that weird way the down wind ones go all limp and the windward ones get all hard? Wouldn't that tend to work the lanyards in their nice little holes chaffing them just where you can't see? And then again how would you lash the standing legs together to get that "extra" tension and spring out of them ? Maybe I am just an old duffer that used to muck around in boats and now boats around in muck but I would be careful of anything that didn't make it with the working sail boats, there is usually a very good reason.