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Chris -- 2025-05-10
A guy wire is a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a structure such as a ship’s mast. The use of “guy” in this term is perhaps puzzling to many. At least a “guide wire” guides a structure into the proper position.
MacGregorSailors.com • View topic – Flying a Flag from the Backstay15 posts – 11 authors – Last post: Aug 11
I have noticed , in so many posted pictures , that a lot of Ya’ll fly flags from the backstay or guide wire that runs from mast to stern . ...
www.macgregorsailors.com/forum/viewtopi … 9&t…p… – Cached
www.graduatedinghy.com • View topic – Jib stick kits9 posts – 4 authors – Last post: Aug 16, 2009
Additionally an extra Eye strap was provided at the lower end of the mast where the bottom of the guide wire was to be attached. ...
tudorsailing.org.uk/graduatedinghyforum/viewtopic.php?... – Cached – Similar
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Well now, that one’s a mistake I’ve made. Thanks for the clarification!
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Beautiful, another classic.
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I’m more familiar with guy ropes than guy wires but something else about this post has been bothering me, like a hairball or an owl pellet I imagine. Finally I’ve coughed up a return-tripper, non-hirsute and mouse-bone free:
The site may have violated Google’s guyed lines and was banned.
theyr only guyed lines, its just instruction…
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I just ran into the roundtripper in a description of a Chinese conference tour.
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Tour T1: 4 Days Tour in Lhasa
Items: 3 Days’ Hotel (Apr. 24, 25, 26); Entrance Tickets, Travel Bus, Tourist Guy, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner;
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