Boom Gallows

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A macabre term. It does refer to executions.
But can we have a discussion about its possible use aboard an Ariel?
1. Lashing the boom for heavy weather.
2. Location for OB davits.
3. Steady brace for standing in the cockpit.
4. Terminal for canopies and enclosures.
5 Relocating the mainsheet out of the cockpit.

If we are going to be able to rig a trisail, the boom has to be lashed to a gallows of some sort.
That may be its main purpose.

The gallows on the Ariel wouid be positioned just forward of the end of the cockpit.
The bail for sheet block would have to be moved on the boom to be on the cockpit side of the gallows.

As we progress in age from agile to fragile having a strong rail aft in the cockpit is a healthy and life preserving idea.
The gallows can be a bimini termination point.
In fact the top cloth can be rolled up and velcroed to the crosspiece.

The legs of the gallows can be used to rig a derrick for lifting an OB out of the well.
Useful for lifting other awkward items in and out of the cockpit.

It will take some fiddling to excuse the gallows from the mainsheet.
Maybe the gallows could be made adjustable up and down.
Or hinged back and down over the stern?

LitlGull will need studying as to wheteher the mainsheet can be rigged off the crosspiece
- with or without a traveler.
BUT check out google> mist-gallows
which shows a simple system hook-up to the boom with double blocks.
One of the doubles at the center of the crosspiece
with the sheet going to a single block on the starboard corner of the gallows then down to the cockpit and a winch or cleat.


Any you guys think about a gallows on the Ariel?
Too complicated? Too expensive? Unsightly? Unnecessary?
Or essential as I have come to believe.

The design of a multi-purpose gallows would not be the wood, bronze and pipe monsters we see on varnish barges.
But something more a compromise between lightness and strength. Mist's is made with aluminum.

Interest???
Here's another starting point:
google> boom gallows - Yachting and Boating World Forums
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