Deadeye Lanyard Knot question

[Garth]

Yep, I've already made the deadeyes. I made 6, originally planning to use two for the forestay. That proved incompatable with the jib, so I'll have a turnbuckle up foreward.

Why would you need 18 deadeyes in a 13' boat? My standing rigging (for a gunter gaff sloop) is a forestay and two sidestays.

Garth

[osteoderm]

Garth,

Two deadeyes each for the aft-led lower shrouds, capshrouds, forestay, jibstay, bobstay, and whiskerstays. A silly project, yes, but A) it looks cool, and was fun to rig, and B) that mast will never fall down.

[Brion Toss]

Hi Garth,
Glad to hear you are getting to the important part, after all of that wood distraction. Consider taking the deadend to a ringbolt in the rail, directly under the deadeye, Clipper style (Ashley's #3318). Or splice directly to the last eye, with a fairly snug splice. Or even a running eye, spliced around its own part (see "Masting and Rigging the Clipper Ship and Ocean Carrier). But the first two will be the handsomest, and the first one the best.
As for finishing the lanyards, make the hitch the opposite way than is shown in Ashley's #3317, so that when you tighten the hitch the last run of the lanyard gets tightened and pulled vertical. Seize to please.
Fair leads,
Brion