Ships – Spars – Gaffs – booms – etc.
Patent
1991-01-02
1991-12-10
Basinger, Sherman
Ships
Spars
Gaffs, booms, etc.
114 98, 114102, 267164, B63H 910
Patent
active
050708023
ABSTRACT:
A vang assembly is provided for manipulating a sailboat boom. The vang assembly includes a mechanical vang in the form of a resiliently flexible elongate column provided with an adjustment means in the form of a soft vang for arcuately flexing the mechanical vang. Opposite ends of the mechanical vang are attached below the boom to a lower portion of the mast and to the boom at a location spaced outwardly and upwardly from the lower portion of the mast. The adjustment means is attached to opposite ends of the mechanical vang and is movable between a contracted position and an extended position. When the adjustment means is moved to a contracted position, the mechanical vang is bowed arcuately upwardly and the boom is urged in a downward direction. When the adjustment means is moved to extended position, the arcuately bowed mechanical vang straightens and pushes the boom upwardly.
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Basinger Sherman
Brahan Thomas J.
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