Originally Posted by Dan

I've gotten quite a bit done on my Phantom in the last few days, masts are stepped and the stays set up. Last night I made up six shrouds with a deadeye siezed into the end of each and today I attached them all to the masts. I was going to bend up a piece of wire to set the deadeye spacing when it occurred to me to try a standard size staple which worked perfectly. You can see them in the first photo, connecting the foremast deadeyes. The second photo shows my first set of lanyards on the mainmast shrouds. I was dreading the whole process of getting the shrouds setup but it wasn't too bad actually. I really thought the lanyards would be a nightmare but it was a piece of cake.

Dan

(Ben- notice I didn't file off those bits on the fife rails, I'll get it right on the next one!)