| Summary: | traveller .this traveller, the traveller of a main boom, it's made out of iron - two iron eye-bolts which [would] be down in the beam, about four or five feet from one to th'other. An' then there's a big spring, iron spring, an' rubber an' iron, goes through each. one end through each eye-bolt, with a big nut on it, an' the block is hooked into that, you see, the main sheet block. For when you jibe a sail. when it comes over with a jerk this spring [breaks] the jerk from the. from the rope, you see. Yes J.D.A. WIDDOWSON Not used Not used Withdrawn used in DNE with different meaning
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